The Selimiye Mosque

Once inside the prayer hall, the imam explained to me that in a mosque there

The Ottomans had many strong and pushing leaders that helped the nations spread into Asia and the middle east at an incredibly rapid rate and helped them grown an army that had few rivals. Their list of rulers begins with Osman I who was the leader of the Turkmen Nomads and who gave his name to the “Ottoman” principality. He helped the region grow during its first few centuries and helped it become a world power. Soon after him his son Orchan rose to power and his son Murad I lead to the massive expansions happening in the Ottoman Empire. Most of these leaders were called Sultan, a person of religious authority and later more secular forms of government, and the first of these Sultans was named Mahmud of Ghazni and he was the leader that preceded

The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state which was created in 1299 after growing out of the breakdown of several Turkish tribes. The empire then grew to add in numerous places in what's currently present-day Europe to and yes it ultimately became one of probably the largest, longest-lasting and powerful most empires in the story of the globe. During the peak of its, the Ottoman Empire included the aspects of Parts, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Egypt, and Turkey of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. The Ottoman Empire was an imperial state which was created in 1299 after growing out of the breakdown of several Turkish tribes. The empire then grew to add in numerous places in what's currently present-day Europe to and yes it ultimately became one of probably the largest, longest-lasting and powerful most empires in the story of the

The Ottoman Turks emerged on the periphery of the Byzantine Empire and the Saljuk Turks. Under a Turkish Muslim warrior named Osman, raids were conducted in western Anatolia on Byzantine settlements and a vast number of Turks were united under his banner. Those Turks who flocked to Osman's banner and followed him into the history books came to be called the Ottomans. The word Ottoman, fits these Turks well as it roughly translates from Turkish as "those associated with Oman."

The Ottoman Empire started in 1301 and ended in 1922. That empire was one of the largest and longest empires in history (“Ottoman Empire”). When the Ottoman Empire came to be, it succeeded the Byzantine Empire and was

The Ottoman Empire’s politics were very clever to achieve rapid success because its structure was based on adaptation and attractions. During Osman’s reign, the sultan, the empire adopted many ideologies from their adversaries to persuade people to joined their improved kingdom. In the book, Pollard explains how, “[ the Ottomans] transformed themselves from warrior bands roaming the borderlands between Islamic and Christian worlds into rulers of a settled state…,” (Pollard, Pg. 392). They saw a clearer vision that their laying foundations was their military might and civilian bureaucracy. Their strategy for territorial expansion across the continent was by attracting civilians to join their military. The soldiers were promised wealth for their victories earned in the

The Ottoman Empire rose and became a World Empire in which lasted from the late 13th century to 1923. The Ottoman Empire was a dynastic empire whose powerful family members retained their power and influence through several generations. It contained religious boundaries and was regulated by the military and administrative power of the dynasty. The Ottomans attempted to bring as much territory as possible into Islam. (The Ottomans)

The Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman, had started in the northwestern corner of the Anatolian Peninsula. The empire expanded rapidly, only to weaken again. The first visible decline

Ottomans: Those who were located on the borders of the Byzantine empire and followed Osman Bey. They captured the Anatolian city of Bursa and made it their capital. Their formidable military machine drove them to expansion.

Later on the nomads were were pushed to the byzantine empire by the Seljuks because of their way of life. It was in this move the the ottoman as a tribe rose as a tribe out of the nomads and their conquering began. According to source, the Ottoman empire became feared all across the european world not just because of their great military prowess, but because of the fear that if conquered, christianity as a religion will be no more. So because of that, there were many crusades created to attack the ottoman empire but non really ever succeeded. Although europe resisted for awhile it became known to them that they could not win the battle. According to source, “Contact with various settled peoples led to the introduction of islam and under Islamic influence, the Turks acquired their greatest fighting tradition, that of the gazi warrior. Well trained and highly skilled, gazi warriors fought to conquer the infidel, acquiring land and riches in the process”. Showing that the ottomans were really a conquer first empire until the introduction of islam which also brought in many other cultures that

The Byzantine empire had its start in 330 AD with Constantine moving the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantine Empire to Constantinople, present day Istanbul. This created a capital in which nearly no one could fully siege control over for centuries. This all changed on April 5,1453 when Sultan Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Empire, determined that he would defeat the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople, took action and marched to the city. After a 54 day siege, on Tuesday, May 29,1453, Sultan Mehmed II and the Muslim Turks breached the walls of the city and brought the last Roman empire crumbling to its knees. The reasons why the Ottoman Empire was able to bring down what once was the greatest empire in the world was due to a proper financial backing and assistance from allies, greater number of troops, better technological advancements, the type of leader Sultan Mehmed II was, and strategy.

The Ottoman Turks who initially relocated from Central Asia, rose to control in the late 1300s mid 1400s to pick up administration over a large portion of the Middle East. In 1453 the armed force of Mehmed II, "The Conqueror," conveyed their massive siege cannons to the entryway of Constantinople and raged the Christian capital. Subsequent to catching Constantinople in 1453 the Ottomans had built up a genuine domain, contemporary with the Habsburg. The Ottoman was the remainder of the grand extensive empire of Islam, overlying the Abbasid and Seljuk, with some Mongol impact through the Ilkhanids of Persia. The Fall of Constantinople denoted the end of the Middle Ages and the start of another age in Europe.

It 's a tale almost as old as time itself. This story begins, from what most scholars conclude, around 2018 BC, when a man named Abraham a.k.a. Avraham to the Jewish people or Ibrahim to the Muslim people reached the ripe age of 90 years old and began to have children (Behind the Name). His first son Ishmael was born to him through his young Egyptian wife Hagar. His second son Isaac was born through his 90-year-old wife Sarah. Two wives, two sons, one land as an inheritance, and the rest is history (Palizzi). Thousands of years later and the battle still rages in the small area of land next to the Mediterranean Sea where to this day still stand the dome of the rock Muslim mosque and the Wailing Wall which is the only remains left of the

Like with many other empires in human history the Ottoman Empire seems to came out from nowhere. During the initial Ottoman expansion the Middle East and

The Ottoman Empire was one of the greatest empires to ever reign in history. It is widely recognized as being one of the most advanced and inclusive empires especially in the first half of its existence. The Ottomans were ahead of the Europeans in just about every aspect of civilization for a few centuries. They were constantly defeating the militaries of the Europeans until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. The Ottomans were a formidable force in the area for a long period of time. In the nineteenth century, the Ottomans had realized that they had fallen far behind the Europeans economically, socially, and militarily. The documentary, The Ottomans: Europe’s Muslim Emperors discusses this. They describe the Ottoman Empire as “This was an empire on an life support system, an old world dynasty colliding with a modern world.” The Ottomans saw they were behind and enacted many decrees, that became known as the Tanzimat or the reorganization of the Ottoman Empire in a literal translation. The Tanzimat reorganizations were too little, too late. The Tanzimat failed because of its inability to fix their outdated systems and to create a strong constitution to keep their changes in place.