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Imperio otomano
A large former Turkish empire which began as a sultanate centered in modern Turkey and at its height ruled over much of Southeast Europe, West Asia and North Africa; founded in the late 13th century, it lasted until the 1920s.
It does not seem very convincing to view a major world empire, with the most modern arms at its disposal, as merely the helpless victim of circumstances beyond its control. Even le…
Under their fluctuating rule an Ottoman Empire was indeed to survive, with varying fortunes, for a further three and a half centuries. But it was an empire in the continual throes…
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