Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Ottoman Empire

This documentary traces a history of the Ottoman Empire from the 13th to the 20th centuries focusing on military campaigns. The Ottoman Empire, also historically referred to as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was an empire founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman Bey in northwestern Anatolia in 1299 With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the Ottoman state was transformed into an empire. (from wikipedia.org)



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