Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish state that ruled over most of the territories of the former Byzantine Empire and beyond, with Istanbul as its capital.
With the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 at the hands of the Ottomans, the Byzantine Empire fell. Some time afterwards, the Templars began opposing the Ottoman Empire to conquer it under the Templar banner. Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, was one of those that made active attempts at conquering the Ottomans' land, until he was defeated in 1476 by the leader of the Ottoman Assassins, Ishak Pasha, 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. 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.
The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye[4] Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu), also historically referred to as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was a state founded by Turkish tribes under Osman Bey in north-western Anatolia in 1299.[5] With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II 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 Ottoman dynasty lasted for 623 years, from 27 July 1299[6][dn 2] to 1 November 1922, when the monarchy in Turkey was abolished.[7]
During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of 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 Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary (modern Slovakia) and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemenand Eritrea in the south; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east;[8] controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.[9] At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states, some of which were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.[dn 3]
With Constantinople as its capital and vast control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries.
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