Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish empire that ruled over most of the former Byzantine Empire, 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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