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'''England''' was a country in western Europe during the lifetimes of [http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Alta%C3%AFr_Ibn-La%27Ahad Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad], and Ezio Auditore da Firenze, however by Modern Times it had become the largest nation of the United Kingdom. Its capital city is [[London]], home of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple,_London Temple].

==History==
===King Henry VII===
[[File:PL_DousingFires.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Even though [[King Henry VII]] ruled England without losing any of his power, the [[Assassins]] feared that he might become corrupted by the [[Templars]] and decided to investigate. They discovered that the king had already killed two Templar conspirators that wanted to claim the throne, [[Lambert Simnel]] and [[Perkin Warbeck]], and that both of them had a co-conspirator: [[Margaret of York]].
The Assassins assured the king that Margaret would die a "natural" death soon and found it surprisingly easy to infiltrate her house and poison her belongings.<ref name="Project Legacy Contracts">[[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

After the death of Margaret, the other conspirators fled to smaller villages and started rallying the [[Civilians|civilians]] there to rise up against their king. The Assassins weren't interested in stopping the civilians, but they did not want the Templars to lead them, so they killed all but one. The only survivor shared valuable information with the Templars, and they discovered the uprising was just a distraction and that the Templars had invaded the Star Chamber, England's secret high court.<ref name="Project Legacy Contracts">[[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

They consulted with the king and asked if he knew anyone who he was suspicious off, but the king told them to cease the investigation. The Assassins then started bribing the court and heard some vague rumours, which eventually led them to a meeting between [[House of Borgia|Borgia]] ambassadors and members of the Star Chamber. The Assassins quickly dealt with them and reported to the king, who promised the Assassins a seat in the Star Chamber.<ref name="Project Legacy Contracts">[[Contracts in Project Legacy]]</ref>

===Mary and Elizabeth===
In 1547, [[Mary I of England]] became queen, and soon it became clear that she was either a Templar, or closely allied with them. She wanted to restore England to Roman Catholicism, and in the process she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake. The Assassins monitored her for a while before they finally assassinated her on the 17th of November in 1558.<ref name="ACII Glyphs">[[Assassin's Creed II]] - [[Glyphs]]</ref>

After Mary, her half-sister [[Elizabeth I of England]] became the queen and she undid the damage Mary I had caused to England. During her reign, she had an [[Second Apple|Apple of Eden]] in her possession. She remained the queen until her death in 1603.<ref name="ACII Glyphs">[[Assassin's Creed II]] - [[Glyphs]]</ref>

===Civil war===
[[File:King's_Return.png|thumb|250px|left|The crowning of Charles II.]]
Around 1651, the English Civil War had started between Charles II of England and [[Oliver Cromwell]]. Charles wanted to restore his family name and take the throne back for himself, while Cromwell wished for parliament to be in charge. Charles II lost the Battle at Worchester in 1651 and was forced into exile in [[France]].<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 1">[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]] - [[Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past]]</ref>

During his time in France, Cromwell became Lord Protector and was in charge of the country, until Charles II was finally restored to the throne on 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, with the help of General [[George Monck]].<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 1">[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]] - [[Chapter 1 - Ghosts of Christmas Past]]</ref>

===Hermeticists===
In the late nineteenth century, the [[Hermeticists|Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]] was founded in [[London]], led by [[William Robert Woodman]], [[William Wynn Westcott]] and [[Samuel Liddell Mathers]].<ref name="Project Legacy - Chapter 4 Frater Vov">[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]] - [[Chapter 4 - Frater V.O.V.]]</ref>

The organization was closely tied to the occult, which was frowned upon by the society, and was thus forced to stay secret. However, due to tensions and a struggle for power, the Order soon started to decline, until it eventually fell apart.<ref name="Project LEgacy - Chapter 4 Frater Vov">[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]] - [[Chapter 4 - Frater V.O.V.]]</ref>

===Modern Times===
[[File:Maggie_thatcher.jpg|thumb|175px|Margaret Thatcher.]]
The United Kingdom was involved in the [[World War II|second World War]], a Templar plot to create their [[New World Order]]. The Prime Minister at this time, [[Winston Churchill]], was secretly a Templar as well and secretly worked with the man that was supposed to be his greatest enemy, [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref name="ACII Glyphs">[[Assassin's Creed II]] - [[Glyphs]]</ref>

From 1979 to 1990, [[Margaret Thatcher]] was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and she too was secretly a Templar. During her reign, she installed [[Boris Yeltsin]], a fellow Templar, as [[Russia]]'s new president.<ref name="ACII Glyphs">[[Assassin's Creed II]] - [[Glyphs]]</ref>

==References==
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Ottoman Empire

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|notable = [[Bayezid II]] [[Selim I]] [[Ahmet]] [[Suleiman I]]}}
The '''Ottoman Empire''', also known as the '''Sublime Ottoman State''' (''Ottoman Turkish'': ''Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye'' or ''Osmanlı Devleti''), was a Sunni Muslim and Turkic dominion that ruled the Eastern Mediterranean for an excess of six hundred years.

==History==
===Formation===
By 1299, the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] had lost most of the Anatolian provinces, and as a result, Turkish Anatolia was divided into numerous [[Wikipedia:Anatolian beyliks|Ghazi emirates]]. One of these Ghazi emirates was led by Osman I, which the empire would be later be entitled by.
===Conquests===
After Osman's death, the Ottomans rapidly conquered large territories in Anatolia and Greece that had previously been owned by the Byzantine Empire. Their victory at the Battle of Kosovo ended Serbian power in the region and paved the entrance to Europe. In time, the Ottomans had conquered all the lands around the Byzantine capital, [[Constantinople]], though trouble struck when Timur of the Timurid Empire attacked Anatolia at the Battle of Ankara in 1402. He captured the Sultan and part of the Ottoman territories were lost. However, after a period of temporary disorder, Mehmed I became the Sultan and restored Ottoman power.
===Constantinople===
The grandson of Mehmed was known as Mehmed II al Fatih (the Conqueror). He reorganized the military and state of the Ottoman Sultanate and prepared the final effort to conquer the Byzantine capital Constantinople. In order to overcome the attack, the Byzantine Empire made an attempt at allegiance with the [[Papacy|Pope]] and the Catholic Kingdoms by negotiating its conversion to Catholicism. However, the conversion was not accepted and Constantinople fell to Ottoman power in 1453, the city was converted into the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
===Fall of the Empire===
The Ottoman Turkish Empire fell behind the other European Empires in the 19th century, its western, more Christian provinces revolting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it was finally conquered at the end of the second world war by the British and French Empires. The British marched into jerusalem in 1917, and the Ottoman Empire finally fell when the British and French Imperial armies occupied Constantinople in 1918. The Eastern Ottoman terriories such as Mesopotamia (Modern Iraq) and Palestine became British protectorates, and Syria and Lebanon given to the French. Anatolia and the old Ottoman capital Constantinople became the modern Republic of Turkey. Contantinople officially became known as İstanbul in 1930. The first President of Turkey was [[Wikipedia:Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], widely regarded as the founder of modern Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

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Ottoman Empire

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{{Faction infobox
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|hideo =
|founder = [[wikipedia:Osman I|Osman I]]
|leader = Sultan
|headquarters = [[Constantinople]]
|locations =
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|religion = [[wikipedia:Sunni Islam|Islam]]
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The '''Ottoman Empire''', also known as the '''Sublime Ottoman State''' (''Ottoman Turkish'': ''Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye'' or ''Osmanlı Devleti''), was a Sunni Muslim and Turkic dominion that ruled the Eastern Mediterranean for an excess of six hundred years.

==History==
===Formation===
By 1299, the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]] had lost most of the Anatolian provinces, and as a result, Turkish Anatolia was divided into numerous [[Wikipedia:Anatolian beyliks|Ghazi emirates]]. One of these Ghazi emirates was led by Osman I, which the empire would be later be entitled by.
===Conquests===
After Osman's death, the Ottomans rapidly conquered large territories in Anatolia and Greece that had previously been owned by the Byzantine Empire. Their victory at the Battle of Kosovo ended Serbian power in the region and paved the entrance to Europe. In time, the Ottomans had conquered all the lands around the Byzantine capital, [[Constantinople]], though trouble struck when Timur of the Timurid Empire attacked Anatolia at the Battle of Ankara in 1402. He captured the Sultan and part of the Ottoman territories were lost. However, after a period of temporary disorder, Mehmed I became the Sultan and restored Ottoman power.
===Constantinople===
The grandson of Mehmed was known as Mehmed II al Fatih (the Conqueror). He reorganized the military and state of the Ottoman Sultanate and prepared the final effort to conquer the Byzantine capital Constantinople. In order to overcome the attack, the Byzantine Empire made an attempt at allegiance with the [[Papacy|Pope]] and the Catholic Kingdoms by negotiating its conversion to Catholicism. However, the conversion was not accepted and Constantinople fell to Ottoman power in 1453, the city was converted into the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
===Fall of the Empire===
The Ottoman Turkish Empire began to decline in the 19th century, its western, more Christian provinces revolting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it was finally conquered at the end of the second world war by the British Empire. The Eastern Ottoman terriories such as Mesopotamia (Modern Iraq) and Palestine became British protectorates. Anatolia and the old Ottoman capital Constantinople became the modern Republic of Turkey. Contantinople officially became known as İstanbul in 1930. The first President of Turkey was [[Wikipedia:Mustafa Kemal Atatürk|Mustafa Kemal Atatürk]], widely regarded as the founder of modern Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

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