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The Ottoman Empire
Periods 3-6
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History
10th Grade
02/25/2013

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Ottoman army before Constantinople in 1453.
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Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
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Ottoman troops desperately attempt to halt advancing Russians during the Siege of Ochakov in 1788.
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Battle of Nicpolis, 1396
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Battle of Mohács, 1526
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Secong siege of Vienna, 1683
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Map of Ottoman Empire
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Battle of Manzikert
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A battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks (Muslims) in 1071, where the Byzantine lost; and the Seljuk Turks first poked into Anatolia
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Rum Sultanate
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What the Turks living in Anatolia called themselves. Named after the way that they pronounced Rome.
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Seljuk Turks
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Were very fierce Asian nomad warriors who first poked into Anatolia at the Battle of Manzikert
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Osman
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The ruler of the Turks who began to build a new empire in the corner of Asia Minor. these turks became known as the Ottoman Turks after the Mongols wiped out the Rum Sultanate.
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Mongols
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A member of any of the traditionally nomadic peoples of Mongolia. Destroyed the Rum Sultanate giving up space for Osman to create an Empire
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Orhan
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Son of Osman, expanded the empire both east and west, alternatively
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Balkan Peninsula
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A large peninsula in southern Europe bounded by the Black, Aegean, and Adriatic seas.
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Bursa
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a city in northwestern Turkey. Former capital of the Ottoman state.
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sultanate
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country or territory ruled by a sultan
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devshirme
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Ottoman policy of taking boys from Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers
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The capital of the Byzantine Empire, which was attacked by the Ottoman Turks starting April 6, 1453, by cannonballs, for a month before the citizens took a last stand, and on May 29 were defeated when the Turks flooded the town, the emperor died, and the place was sacked, to the dismay of the Ottoman ruler Mehmed II; the city was soon renamed and became the Ottoman Empire's capital for the Balkans and Anatolian Peninsula
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palace in Instanbul that was the primary residence for the ottoman sultans, order to be built by mehmet II
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Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938
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