OTTOMANEMPIRE
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, sometimes referred to as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a contiguous transcontinental empire founded by Turkish tribes under Osman Bey in north-western Anatolia in 1299. With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmet II in 1453 the Ottoman state was transformed into an empire.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Ottoman Empire
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