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The '''Ottoman Empire''' was a Turkish empire that ruled over most of the eastern {{Wiki|Mediterranean}}, with [[Constantinople]] as its capital.
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|founder      = [[wikipedia:Osman I|Osman I]]
|leader      = Sultan
|headquarters = [[Constantinople]]
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|related      = [[Assassins]]
|religion    = [[wikipedia:Sunni Islam|Islam]]
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|formed      = 1299
|reorganised  = 1511
|collapsed    = 1923
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|notable      = [[Bayezid II]]<br>[[Selim I]]<br>[[Ahmet]]<br>[[Suleiman I]]}}


The '''Ottoman Empire''', also known as the '''Sublime Ottoman State''' (''Ottoman Turkish'': ''Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿO<u>s</u>mâniyye'' or ''Osmanlı Devleti''), was a Sunni Muslim and Turkic dominion that ruled the eastern Mediterranean for an excess of six hundred years.
With the {{Wiki|Fall of Constantinople}} in 1453 at the hands of the [[Ottomans]], the {{Wiki|Byzantine Empire}} fell. Not too soon afterwards, the [[Templars]] began opposing the Ottoman Empire to conquer it under the Templar banner. [[Vlad Tepes]], Prince of {{Wiki|Wallachia}}, was one of the Templars making active attempts at conquering the Ottomans' land, until he was defeated by the [[Assassin leader|leader]] of the [[Turkish Assassins|Ottoman Assassins]], [[Ishak Pasha]], in 1476, and subsequently killed.


==History==
Later in 1509, the Templars returned to the Ottoman Empire under the banner of the Byzantine Empire and the leadership of [[Manuel Palaiologos]], in an attempt to conquer Constantinople from within. With Sultan [[Bayezid II]] fighting with his son [[Selim I|Selim]] over the succession of the throne, the Templars managed to easily gain foothold within the Empire, and Bayezid's oldest son and presumed heir Prince [[Ahmet]] eventually found himself joining the Templar cause and easily taking Manuel's place as the Byzantine Templars' leader. In 1511, due to the combined efforts of [[Yusuf Tazim]], leader of the Ottoman Assassins, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], [[Mentor]] of the [[Italian Assassins]], and Prince [[Suleiman I|Suleiman]], the Assassins managed to fight and repel the Templars from the Ottoman Empire, after Manuel's death at the hands of Ezio and Ahmet's death at the hands of his own brother Selim.
===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===
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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.
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===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 First 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 territories such as Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Palestine became British mandates, and Syria and Lebanon given to the French. Anatolia and the old Ottoman capital Constantinople became the modern Republic of Turkey. Constantinople 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.
 
==Source==
[[wikipedia:Fall of the Ottoman Empire|Wikipedia: Fall of the Ottoman Empire]]
 
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Yusuf and Ezio looking out over Constantinople.

The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish empire that ruled over most of the eastern Mediterranean, with Constantinople as its capital.

With the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 at the hands of the Ottomans, the Byzantine Empire fell. Not too soon afterwards, the Templars began opposing the Ottoman Empire to conquer it under the Templar banner. Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, was one of the Templars making active attempts at conquering the Ottomans' land, until he was defeated by the leader of the Ottoman Assassins, Ishak Pasha, in 1476, and subsequently killed.

Later in 1509, the Templars returned to the Ottoman Empire under the banner of the Byzantine Empire and the leadership of Manuel Palaiologos, in an attempt to conquer Constantinople from within. With Sultan Bayezid II fighting with his son Selim over the succession of the throne, the Templars managed to easily gain foothold within the Empire, and Bayezid's oldest son and presumed heir Prince Ahmet eventually found himself joining the Templar cause and easily taking Manuel's place as the Byzantine Templars' leader. In 1511, due to the combined efforts of Yusuf Tazim, leader of the Ottoman Assassins, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Mentor of the Italian Assassins, and Prince Suleiman, the Assassins managed to fight and repel the Templars from the Ottoman Empire, after Manuel's death at the hands of Ezio and Ahmet's death at the hands of his own brother Selim.

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