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[[File:The view 3.png|thumb|250px|Ezio Auditore and Yusuf Tazim gazing out over Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire.]]
The '''Ottoman Empire''' was a Turkish state that ruled over most of the territories of the former [[Byzantines|Byzantine Empire]] and beyond, with [[Constantinople]] as its capital.
With the {{Wiki|Fall of Constantinople}} in 1453 at the hands of the [[Ottomans]], the {{Wiki|Byzantine Empire}} fell. Some time afterwards, the [[Templars]] began opposing the Ottoman Empire to conquer it under the Templar banner. [[Vlad Tepes]], Prince of {{Wiki|Wallachia}}, was one of those that made active attempts at conquering the Ottomans' land, until he was defeated in 1476 by the [[Assassin leader|leader]] of the [[Turkish Assassins|Ottoman Assassins]], [[Ishak Pasha]], and subsequently killed
With the {{Wiki|Fall of Constantinople}} in 1453 at the hands of the [[Ottomans]], the {{Wiki|Byzantine Empire}} fell. Some time afterwards, the [[Templars]] began opposing the Ottoman Empire to conquer it under the Templar banner. [[Vlad Tepes]], Prince of {{Wiki|Wallachia}}, was one of those that made active attempts at conquering the Ottomans' land, until he was defeated in 1476 by the [[Assassin leader|leader]] of the [[Turkish Assassins|Ottoman Assassins]], [[Ishak Pasha]], and subsequently killed.
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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. While Sultan [[Bayezid II]] fought with his son [[Selim I|Selim]] over the succession of the throne, the Templars managed to gain an easy foothold within the Empire, and Bayezid's eldest son and presumed heir, Prince [[Ahmet]], eventually joined the Templars' cause and easily took over Manuel's place as the leader of the Byzantine Templars.
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. While Sultan [[Bayezid II]] fought with his son [[Selim I|Selim]] over the succession of the throne, the Templars managed to gain an easy foothold within the Empire, and Bayezid's eldest son and presumed heir, Prince [[Ahmet]], eventually joined the Templars' cause and easily took over Manuel's place as the leader of the Byzantine Templars.
In 1511, due to the combined efforts of [[Yusuf Tazim]], leader of the Ottoman Assassins, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]], [[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 in [[Derinkuyu]] and Ahmet's death at those of his own brother Selim. <span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">he </span>'''Ottoman Empire'''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> (</span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turkish_language Ottoman Turkish]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه </span>''Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿO<u>s</u>mâniyye''<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-twareekh.com_5-0" style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-twareekh.com-5 [4]]</sup><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_language Modern Turkish]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">: </span>''Osmanlı İmparatorluğu''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">), also historically referred to as the </span>'''Turkish Empire'''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> or </span>'''Turkey'''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, was a state founded by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_people Turkish]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> tribes under </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osman_I Osman Bey]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> in north-western </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia Anatolia]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> in 1299.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-6 [5]]</sup><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> With the conquest of </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople Constantinople]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> by </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_II Mehmed II]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> in 1453, the Ottoman state became an empire. The empire reached its peak at 1590, covering parts of Asia, Europe and Africa. The reign of the long-lived </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_dynasty Ottoman dynasty]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> lasted for 623 years, from 27 July 1299</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-7 [6]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-8 [dn 2]]</sup><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> to 1 November 1922, when the monarchy in </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Turkey]<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> was abolished.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-9 [7]]</sup>
In 1511, due to the combined efforts of [[Yusuf Tazim]], leader of the Ottoman Assassins, [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze|Ezio Auditore]], [[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 in [[Derinkuyu]] and Ahmet's death at those of his own brother Selim.
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-family:sans-serif;">During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleiman_the_Magnificent Suleiman the Magnificent], the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire Holy Roman Empire] to the outskirts of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna Vienna], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Hungary Royal Hungary] (modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia Slovakia]) and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth] in the north to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen Yemen]and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea Eritrea] in the south; from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria Algeria] in the west to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan Azerbaijan] in the east;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-10 [8]]</sup> controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-11 [9]]</sup> At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_the_Ottoman_Empire 32 provinces] and numerous [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal_and_tributary_states_of_the_Ottoman_Empire vassal states], some of which were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-12 [dn 3]]</sup></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-family:sans-serif;">With [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0stanbul Constantinople] as its capital and vast control of lands around the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea Mediterranean basin], the empire was at the center of interactions between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_world Eastern] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world Western worlds] for over six centuries.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;font-family:sans-serif;">After the international recognition of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_National_Assembly_of_Turkey new Turkish parliament] headquartered in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankara Ankara], by means of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Lausanne Treaty of Lausanne] signed on 24 July 1923, the Turkish parliament proclaimed on 29 October 1923 the establishment of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey Republic of Turkey] as the new Turkish State that succeeded and formally ended the defunct Ottoman Empire, in line with the treaty.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-13 [dn 4]]</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1em;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire#cite_note-14 [10]]</sup> The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Caliphate Ottoman Caliphate] was abolished on 3 March 1924; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate Caliphate]'s authority and properties were transferred to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_National_Assembly_of_Turkey Grand National Assembly of Turkey].</p>
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Ezio Auditore and Yusuf Tazim gazing out over Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish state that ruled over most of the territories of the former Byzantine Empire and beyond, with Constantinople as its capital.
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. While Sultan Bayezid II fought with his son Selim over the succession of the throne, the Templars managed to gain an easy foothold within the Empire, and Bayezid's eldest son and presumed heir, Prince Ahmet, eventually joined the Templars' cause and easily took over Manuel's place as the leader of the Byzantine Templars.
In 1511, due to the combined efforts of Yusuf Tazim, leader of the Ottoman Assassins, Ezio Auditore, 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 in Derinkuyu and Ahmet's death at those of his own brother Selim.
