Ottoman Empire Culture, Government & Religion -

ottoman empire  The Ottoman state based its authority on religion The first warrior-sultans expanded the empire in the name of Islam Sultans claimed the title of caliph, or In 1453, the city of Constantinople , the capital of the Byzantine empire, was captured by the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II

The founders of the Ottoman Empire were a tiny band of Eurasian nomad refugees, who had been driven into Southwest Asia, off the Great Eurasian Steppe, by the The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage published on 01 Jan 1994 by Brill

Some of the states that succeeded the Ottoman Empire have chosen to sum up Ottoman rule in local curricula as simply Ottoman or Turkish How did an Empire that stretched over thousands of miles and over half a millennium impact the world we live in today? William and Anita explain the focus