The Preston, style 3328 from Dunbrooke's Club Collection, is a sand-washed polynosic ottoman knit polo with bird's-eye collar. |
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You settled into your pullout chair, and rested your feet on its matching ottoman. |
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If you have a chair, it can be even more comfortable with an ottoman, to prop your feet up on top of. |
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Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods. |
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If the rib effect is very fine it is called bengaline, and if its extremely prominent and a lot thicker it would be an ottoman. |
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If more furniture is needed, consider a cozy upholstered chair and ottoman or chaise, and create a reading nook in one corner. |
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There was a couch, a rocking chair, and two big squashy armchairs complete with an ottoman for each. |
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The men's version is a washed polynosic ottoman knit polo with bird's-eye collar. |
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This cylindrical, tufted pillow would fit in perfectly with a formal living room with heavy drapes, deep sofas, and perhaps a Bichon Frise curled up on the ottoman. |
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Rebecca sank down onto the ottoman, clutching the telephone receiver. |
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When I moved my trade show uniform from an ottoman rib to a jersey knit, he adjusted the tape to make the new shirts look better than the old ones. |
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It is a sand-washed polynosic ottoman knit polo with bird's-eye collar. |
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The clock overtop the teak lingerie chest is a local antique, while the toss cushions hail from India, the area rug from Iran and the seagrass ottoman from Vietnam. |
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Items that resemble stacks of bank notes and can be used as a seat or ottoman are also available. |
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Nubby fawn-colored chenille armchairs and a matching oversized ottoman provide a cozy spot for reading by the fireplace. |
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The homeowners already had and loved the Chinese indigo denim blanket over the ottoman. |
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Next, Lane added a snazzy striped throw rug and ottoman from Target. |
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Reflecting Rottet's solution-solving design style, the Rattan Tray Table incorporates a fitted upholstered cushion to act as both a coffee table and an ottoman. |
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By inhabiting the world of the Ottoman ecumene, popular music invests its soundscapes with universality. |
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The Ottoman Empire had failed to raise revenue and a monopoly of effective armed forces. |
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The struggle with the Ottoman Empire was fought in Hungary and the Mediterranean. |
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In addition, Habsburg trade in the Mediterranean was consistently disrupted by the Ottoman Empire. |
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Charles fought continually with the Ottoman Empire and its sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. |
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During the early modern era, the Ottoman state enjoyed an expansion and consolidation of power, leading to a Pax Ottomana. |
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Later in his brief life, Byron joined the Greek War of Independence fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. |
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The Ottoman Empire conquered most of the Genoese overseas territories during the 15th century. |
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Rising Ottoman power also cut into the Genoese emporia in the Aegean, and the Black Sea trade was reduced. |
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These emblems often involve the star and crescent symbol taken from the Ottoman flag. |
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The success of the Serbian Revolution against Ottoman rule in 1817 marked the birth of the Principality of Serbia. |
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Meanwhile, in Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire reached its zenith and completed its conquest of the Balkan region. |
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The Ottoman Empire conquered Egypt, hanging the last Mamluk Sultan in Cairo. |
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Meanwhile, Napoleon's forces annihilated a series of Egyptian and Ottoman armies at the battles of the Pyramids, Mount Tabor, and Abukir. |
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On 17 March, he laid siege to Acre, and defeated an Ottoman effort to relieve the city at the Battle of Mount Tabor on 17 April. |
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However, his repeated assaults on Acre were driven back by Ottoman and British forces under the command of Jezzar Pasha and Sir Sidney Smith. |
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At the end of January 1878, the Ottoman Sultan appealed to Britain to save Constantinople. |
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Bismarck and Wilhelm II after him sought closer economic ties with the Ottoman Empire. |
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Accordingly, they asked to have construction halted, to which Germany and the Ottoman Empire acquiesced. |
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In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai. |
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This was seen as a method of countering Russian influence in the Balkans as the Ottoman Empire continued to weaken. |
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Fakhri Pasha, the Ottoman commander of Medina, resisted for more than two and half years during the Siege of Medina before surrendering. |
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During several months of reorganisation and training of the summer, a number of attacks were carried out on sections of the Ottoman front line. |
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The Armistice of Mudros, signed at the end of October, ended hostilities with the Ottoman Empire when fighting was continuing north of Aleppo. |
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On 30 October, the Ottoman Empire capitulated, signing the Armistice of Mudros. |
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After the Treaty of Versailles, treaties with Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire were signed. |
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The Ottoman Empire disintegrated, with much of its Levant territory awarded to various Allied powers as protectorates. |
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The Ottoman Empire was soon replaced by Turkey and several other countries in the Middle East. |
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Before the end of the war, the Ottoman Empire had maintained a modest level of peace and stability throughout the Middle East. |
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With the fall of the Ottoman government, power vacuums developed and conflicting claims to land and nationhood began to emerge. |
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The Armenians were intentionally marched to death and a number were attacked by Ottoman brigands. |
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Some of these were later absorbed into the Ottoman Empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries. |
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In the century after the death of Osman I, Ottoman rule began to extend over Anatolia and the Balkans. |
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Osman's son, Orhan, captured the northwestern Anatolian city of Bursa in 1326, and made it the new capital of the Ottoman state. |
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In the Battle of Ankara in 1402, Timur defeated the Ottoman forces and took Sultan Bayezid I as a prisoner, throwing the empire into disorder. |
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It ended when Mehmed I emerged as the sultan and restored Ottoman power, bringing an end to the Interregnum, also known as the Fetret Devri. |
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Mehmed allowed the Orthodox Church to maintain its autonomy and land in exchange for accepting Ottoman authority. |
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Albanian resistance was a major obstacle to Ottoman expansion on the Italian peninsula. |
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In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Ottoman Empire entered a period of expansion. |
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Selim I established Ottoman rule in Egypt, and created a naval presence on the Red Sea. |
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Transylvania, Wallachia and, intermittently, Moldavia, became tributary principalities of the Ottoman Empire. |
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In the east, the Ottoman Turks took Baghdad from the Persians in 1535, gaining control of Mesopotamia and naval access to the Persian Gulf. |
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France and the Ottoman Empire, united by mutual opposition to Habsburg rule, became strong allies. |
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The Portuguese empire expanded into the Persian Gulf, contesting control of the spice trade with the Ajuran Empire and the Ottoman Empire. |
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Their rule extended from Iraq to Oman at its height and they too came under Ottoman suzerainty. |
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Two of the most influential Arabist societies were established beyond the reach of Ottoman censors and police. |
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It will be noted that the title of Sultan was adopted partly because that of Khedive had been conferred by an Ottoman firman. |
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After the war, the United Kingdom received the League of Nations mandate over a number of former German and Ottoman colonies. |
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The rise of the Ottoman Empire further limited the possibilities of European overland trade. |
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The Congress of Berlin blocked Russia from imposing the harsh Treaty of San Stefano on the Ottoman Empire. |
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Plague remained a major event in Ottoman society until the second quarter of the 19th century. |
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With the decay of the Ottoman Empire, in 1830 the French seized Algiers, thus beginning the colonization of French North Africa. |
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The colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire were distributed to the Allied powers as League of Nations mandates. |
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A Second Coalition, consisting of Great Britain, Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire, was formed, but it, too, failed to overcome the French. |
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A Second Coalition formed in 1798 by Great Britain, Austria, Naples, the Ottoman Empire, the Papal States, Portugal, Russia, and Sweden. |
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In addition the Maratha Confederation, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Naples and the Duchy of Warsaw each had more than 100,000 men under arms. |
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Back in Egypt on 25 July, Bonaparte defeated an Ottoman amphibious invasion at Abukir. |
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In February 1806, Ottoman Emperor Selim III finally recognized Napoleon as Emperor. |
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That decision brought the Ottoman Empire into a losing war against Russia and Britain. |
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Although the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria severed relations with the United States, neither declared war. |
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The Cypriots expressed their true disdain for Ottoman rule through revolts and nationalist movements. |
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They abandoned Ottoman architecture and showed little respect for Ottoman rule. |
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The tribal chiefs were difficult to appease and an endless cycle of violence curbed Ottoman efforts to pacify the land. |
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After the Ottoman departure in 1918, he sought to recapture the lands of his Qasimid ancestors. |
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After Ottoman rule, Aden was ruled by the Sultanate of Lahej, under suzerainty of the Zaidi imams of Yemen. |
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The North African invaders, under the command of Dutch renegade Jan Janszoon, flew an Ottoman flag over the island. |
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Reaction to Ottoman misrule led to uprisings by both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, although none were successful. |
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Under the Ottoman rule, numeracy, school enrollment and literacy rates were all low. |
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In some countries, these low levels of human capital level persisted sometime after Ottoman rule ended. |
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Greece and Cyprus were no exception, they faced the same issue of paths taken under Ottoman educational policies. |
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Under his command the Ottoman Empire was able to gain and keep control of the eastern Mediterranean for over thirty years. |
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Crete was left out of the modern Greek state by the London Protocol of 1830, and soon it was yielded to Egypt by the Ottoman sultan. |
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It made the Ottoman elite contribute to building and rehabilitating the ruined city. |
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The event occurred in November 1866, as a large Ottoman force besieged the Arkadi Monastery, which served as the headquarters of the rebellion. |
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Cretans also have a tradition of keeping firearms at home, a tradition lasting from the era of resistance against the Ottoman Empire. |
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The Black Sea was mainly the domain of the Russians and the Ottoman Empire. |
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The Ottoman fleet on the other hand was in a period of transition with many obsolete ships. |
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The Russian fleet mined the exit from the Bosporus, preventing nearly all Ottoman ships from entering the Black Sea. |
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The alliance treaty expected that the Ottoman Empire would become involved in the conflict in a short amount of time. |
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Ottoman officials informed the German government that the country needed time to prepare for conflict. |
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Germany provided financial aid and weapons shipments to the Ottoman Empire. |
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The Ottoman Empire also had its own allies in Azerbaijan and the Northern Caucasus. |
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Ottoman power based in Anatolia continued to grow, and in 1453 extinguished the Byzantine Empire with the Conquest of Constantinople. |
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The tour included an official visit to Istanbul where Fisher dined with the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from gold cups and plates. |
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Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1517, after which it became a province of the Ottoman Empire. |
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After the French were expelled, power was seized in 1805 by Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian military commander of the Ottoman army in Egypt. |
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While he carried the title of viceroy of Egypt, his subordination to the Ottoman porte was merely nominal. |
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Egypt under the Muhammad Ali dynasty remained nominally an Ottoman province. |
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During the Renaissance era, the Venetians raised great walls around cities threatened by the Ottoman Empire. |
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Other notable Greeks in Egypt during the Ottoman period included Damat Hasan Pasha from the Morea, a governor of Egypt. |
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This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. |
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In the Ottoman Empire, numerous types of tulips were cultivated and bred, and today, 14 species can still be found in Turkey. |
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The era during which the Ottoman Empire was wealthiest is often called the Tulip era or Lale Devri in Turkish. |
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More immediate to the time, the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire was a political event that redrew the political boundaries of West Asia. |
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The huge conglomeration of territories and peoples formerly ruled by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was divided into several new nations. |
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Parts of the Ottoman Empire on the Arabian Peninsula became parts of what are today Saudi Arabia and Yemen. |
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The Ottoman Empire controlled Anatolia, most of the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans from the mid 16th century onwards. |
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In 1551 Turgut Reis enslaved the entire population of the Maltese island of Gozo, between 5,000 and 6,000, sending them to Ottoman Tripolitania. |
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The eldest Barbarossa also went on a rampage through Algiers in 1516, and captured the town with the help of the Ottoman Empire. |
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With the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the land route to Asia became much more difficult and dangerous. |
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With the Fall of Constantinople to the Turkish Ottoman Empire in 1453, the land route to Asia became more difficult. |
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The expansion of the Ottoman Empire cut off trading possibilities with the east. |
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After the death of Matthew, and with end of the Black Army, the Ottoman Empire grew in strength and Central Europe was defenseless. |
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In October 1652 at Kilkhampton John Granville married Jane Wyche, a daughter of Sir Peter Wyche, English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. |
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The Ottoman provinces in North Africa were nominally under Ottoman suzerainty, but in reality they were mostly autonomous. |
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For centuries, large vessels on the Mediterranean relied on galley slaves supplied by North African and Ottoman slave traders. |
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The Barbary Coast increased in influence in the 15th century, when the Ottoman Empire took over as rulers of the area. |
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With Ottoman protection and a host of destitute immigrants, the coastline soon became reputed for piracy. |
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Many people in the Balkans place their greatest folk heroes in the era of either the onslaught or the retreat of the Ottoman Empire. |
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This estimate is in harmony with the first findings based on Ottoman documentary evidence. |
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As a result of the war, almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire were captured and partitioned among the allies. |
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The Ottoman Empire soon joined the Central Powers becoming one of the three empires participating in that alliance. |
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The benefit of the Ottoman Empire was the freedom of movement for citizens and goods. |
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Complete excavations have been performed on several wrecks from the Classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods. |
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The Turks made the city the capital of their Ottoman Empire, which lasted until 1922 and included Egypt, Syria and most of the Balkans. |
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The Ottoman wars in Europe, also sometimes referred to as the Turkish wars, marked an essential part of the history of the continent as a whole. |
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The growth of the Ottoman Empire, culminating in the fall of Constantinople in 1453, cut off trading possibilities with the east. |
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The success of the Serbian revolution against Ottoman rule in 1817 marked the foundation of modern Principality of Serbia. |
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In 1538, the principality became a tributary to the Ottoman Empire, but it retained internal and partial external autonomy. |
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The culture has been also influenced by the Byzantine culture, the neighbouring Magyar and Slavic population, and later by the Ottoman Turks. |
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By 1541, the entire Balkan peninsula and most of Hungary had been conquered and integrated into the Ottoman Empire. |
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The country descended into political chaos, with frequent Ottoman and Tatar incursions and pillages. |
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Due to Austrian and Ottoman opposition and British reserves, the union program as demanded by radical campaigners was debated intensely. |
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Between 1711 and 1812, the Russian Empire occupied the region five times during its wars against Ottoman and Austrian Empires. |
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After the Middle Ages the area was loosely under the control of the Ottoman Empire, except Morocco. |
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However, this, too, fell to the Ottomans in 1460, completing the Ottoman conquest of mainland Greece. |
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The nature of Ottoman administration of Greece varied, though it was invariably arbitrary and often harsh. |
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Mountainous regions in the interior and many islands remained effectively autonomous from the central Ottoman state for many centuries. |
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When military conflicts broke out between the Ottoman Empire and enemies, Greeks usually took arms against the empire, with few exceptions. |
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Later, during the Ottoman period, the main theatrical folk art was the Karagiozis. |
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In the earlier stages of the Ottoman Empire, a Turkic form of Shamanism was still widely practiced in Anatolia which soon lost ground to Sufism. |
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The Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Austrian Empire existed at the same time as the above empires, but did not expand over oceans. |
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A second Battle of Diu in 1538 finally ended Ottoman ambitions in India and confirmed Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean. |
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The Portuguese empire expanded into the Persian Gulf as Portugal contested control of the spice trade with the Ottoman Empire. |
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Another siege failed in 1547 putting an end to the Ottoman ambitions, confirming the Portuguese hegemony. |
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The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 finally ended the Byzantine Empire. |
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Demetrios thought the Morea would be restored to him to rule, but it was incorporated into the Ottoman fold. |
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In the same year, the Ottoman sultan moved to attack Lepanto by land, and sent a large fleet to support his offensive by sea. |
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The fall of Famagusta marked the beginning of the Ottoman period in Cyprus. |
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Despite victory at sea over the Turks, Cyprus remained under Ottoman rule for the next three centuries. |
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Venice and Genoa acquired vast naval empires in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, some of which threatened those of the growing Ottoman Empire. |
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In 1581, England set up the Levant Company to monopolize commerce with the Ottoman Empire. |
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Morocco was facing aggression from Spain and the Ottoman Empire allies pressing westward. |
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Europe at the time was threatened by the invading armies of the Ottoman Turks and was desperate for allies. |
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Timur likewise saw the European states as allies to help him destroy his Ottoman enemies. |
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There was the possibility of an alliance between Timur and the European states against the Ottoman Turks attacking Europe. |
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There was a clear motive for Timur, who wanted to surround his Ottoman and Mamluk enemies in his offensive alliance. |
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An Ottoman fleet captured Muscat in 1552, during the fight for control of the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. |
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As territories of the Mamluk Sultanate, the Hijaz, including Jeddah and the holy city of Mecca, passed into Ottoman possession. |
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The oldest mosque in town, its minaret was built in the 13th century, and its pillars date back to Ottoman rule. |
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After the conquest, Sultan Mehmed II transferred the capital of the Ottoman Empire from Edirne to Constantinople. |
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The Ottoman army had made several frontal assaults on the land wall, but were always repelled with heavy losses. |
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This fleet narrowly escaped prior to the Ottoman navy assuming control over the Golden Horn, which was accomplished by midday. |
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The Phanariotes, as they were called, provided many capable advisers to the Ottoman rulers. |
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Russian claims to Byzantine heritage clashed with those of the Ottoman Empire's own claim. |
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The Ottoman sultans also claimed the title of Caliph starting with Murad I, who transformed the Ottoman state into a transcontinental empire. |
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Some early Ottoman Sultans even had to accept the vassal status in the eyes of a foreign overlord. |
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The Pontificate of Nicholas saw the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, and decrees which effectively sanctioned slavery. |
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Any Western contribution was not adequate to counterbalance Ottoman strength. |
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Alexander authorised him to pass through Rome, ostensibly on a crusade against the Ottoman Empire, without mentioning Naples. |
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Alexander appealed to Ascanio Sforza and even to the Ottoman Sultan Bayazid II for help. |
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In less than a day, they took Goa from Ismail Adil Shah and his Ottoman allies, who surrendered on 10 December. |
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In 1846, Massawa, and later much of the Northeast African coast of the Red Sea, came under the rule of the Khedive of Egypt with Ottoman consent. |
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The Ottoman fleets at Suez were instrumental in disputing control with the Portuguese over Indian Ocean trade. |
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In the early part of his reign Philip was concerned with the rising power of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent. |
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Philip appealed to the Pope and other powers in Europe to bring an end to the rising Ottoman threat. |
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The Spanish sent a relief force, which finally drove the Ottoman army out of the island. |
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His greatest battlefield accomplishment was the defeat of the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto, which turned the tide against Turkish aggression. |
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Although clashes would be ongoing, he ended the major threat posed to Europe by the Ottoman navy. |
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An ultimatum from Ottoman Sultan Suleiman to Charles V also played an important role in his release. |
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They discussed the possibility of an alliance between Holland, the Ottoman Empire, Morocco and the Moriscos, against the common enemy Spain. |
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Some Cossacks moved to the Danube delta region, where they formed the Danubian Sich under Ottoman rule. |
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Around the end of the 16th century, relations between the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire were strained by increasing Cossack aggression. |
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From the second part of the 16th century, Cossacks started raiding Ottoman territories. |
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In retaliation, Tatars living under Ottoman rule launched raids into the Commonwealth, mostly in the southeast territories. |
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By 1615 and 1625, Cossacks had razed suburbs of Constantinople, forcing the Ottoman Sultan to flee his palace. |
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Their settlement at the border with Russia was approved by the Ottoman Empire after the Cossacks officially vowed to serve the Sultan. |
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Ottoman mail was constructed with alternating rows of solid links and round riveted links. |
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Ottoman riveted mail, alternating rows of round riveted links and solid links, 16th century. |
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Following a long period of military setbacks against European powers, the Ottoman Empire gradually declined into the late nineteenth century. |
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Chieftains would barter their slaves to Arab, Berber, Ottoman or European buyers for rum, spices, cloth or other goods. |
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A member of the Ottoman slave class, called a kul in Turkish, could achieve high status. |
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By this time, the Ottoman Empire was a major part of the European political sphere. |
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These pressures led to a series of crises around the year 1600, placing great strain upon the Ottoman system of government. |
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The discovery of new maritime trade routes by Western European states allowed them to avoid the Ottoman trade monopoly. |
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Despite the growing European presence in the Indian Ocean, Ottoman trade with the east continued to flourish. |
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The battle was far more damaging to the Ottoman navy in sapping experienced manpower than the loss of ships, which were rapidly replaced. |
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The Treaty also revealed that the Ottoman Empire was on the defensive and unlikely to present any further aggression in Europe. |
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After this treaty the Ottoman Empire was able to enjoy a generation of peace, as Austria and Russia were forced to deal with the rise of Prussia. |
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The war caused an exodus of the Crimean Tatars, about 200,000 of whom moved to the Ottoman Empire in continuing waves of emigration. |
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There were several important Ottoman victories in the early years of the war, such as the Battle of Gallipoli and the Siege of Kut. |
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The Imperial Harem was one of the most important powers of the Ottoman court. |
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The Divan, in the years when the Ottoman state was still a Beylik, was composed of the elders of the tribe. |
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Throughout Ottoman history, there were many instances in which local governors acted independently, and even in opposition to the ruler. |
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After the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, the Ottoman state became a constitutional monarchy. |
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The Ottoman Empire was always organized around a system of local jurisprudence. |
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Legal administration in the Ottoman Empire was part of a larger scheme of balancing central and local authority. |
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The jurisdictional complexity of the Ottoman Empire was aimed to permit the integration of culturally and religiously different groups. |
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The Ottoman army was once among the most advanced fighting forces in the world, being one of the first to use muskets and cannons. |
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The Ottoman Turks began using falconets, which were short but wide cannons, during the Siege of Constantinople. |
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The modernization of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century started with the military. |
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In 1826 Sultan Mahmud II abolished the Janissary corps and established the modern Ottoman army. |
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The Ottoman army was also the first institution to hire foreign experts and send its officers for training in western European countries. |
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The Ottoman Navy vastly contributed to the expansion of the Empire's territories on the European continent. |
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The shipyard at Barrow, England, built its first submarine in 1886 for the Ottoman Empire. |
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However, the collapsing Ottoman economy could not sustain the fleet's strength for too long. |
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Following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the Committee of Union and Progress sought to develop a strong Ottoman naval force. |
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The Ottoman Navy Foundation was established in 1910 to buy new ships through public donations. |
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The effectiveness of this professional financial body stands behind the success of many great Ottoman statesmen. |
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Turkish, in its Ottoman variation, was a language of military and administration since the nascent days of the Ottomans. |
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The Ottoman constitution of 1876 did officially cement the official imperial status of Turkish. |
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Intercultural marriages also played their part in creating the characteristic Ottoman elite culture. |
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When compared to the Turkish folk culture, the influence of these new cultures in creating the culture of the Ottoman elite was clear. |
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Slavery was a part of Ottoman society, with most slaves employed as domestic servants. |
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The two primary streams of Ottoman written literature are poetry and prose. |
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Until the 19th century, Ottoman prose did not develop to the extent that contemporary Divan poetry did. |
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The first novel published in the Ottoman Empire was by an Armenian named Vartan Pasha. |
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During the Rise period the early or first Ottoman architecture period, Ottoman art was in search of new ideas. |
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The growth period of the Empire become the classical period of architecture, when Ottoman art was at its most confident. |
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During the years of the Stagnation period, Ottoman architecture moved away from this style, however. |
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The art of Ottoman decoration developed with a multitude of influences due to the wide ethnic range of the Ottoman Empire. |
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In the Ottoman Empire, illuminated and illustrated manuscripts were commissioned by the Sultan or the administrators of the court. |
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Ottoman classical music was an important part of the education of the Ottoman elite. |
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Ottoman classical music arose largely from a confluence of Byzantine music, Armenian music, Arabic music, and Persian music. |
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In ratifying it, the Ottoman Empire agreed to permit international shipping to pass freely through the canal, in time of war and peace. |
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Despite the disapproval of local tribes, Al Thani continued supporting Ottoman rule. |
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The revolt was successful and Ottoman rule in the country further declined. |
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Report prepared by local governors of Ottoman Empire in 1892 states that total income from pearl hunting in 1892 is 2,450,000 kran. |
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Qatar's first demographic records date back to 1892, and were conducted by Ottoman governors in the region. |
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Fearing an Ottoman collapse, France and Britain rushed forces to Gallipoli. |
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The Ottoman vassal states of Wallachia and Moldavia became largely independent. |
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As the Ottoman Empire steadily weakened decade after decade, Russia stood poised to take advantage by expanding south. |
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In the 1850s, the British and the French, who were allied with the Ottoman Empire, were determined not to allow this to happen. |
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In the early 1800s, the Ottoman Empire suffered a number of setbacks which challenged the existence of the country. |
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In 1831 Muhammad Ali of Egypt, who was the most powerful vassal of the Ottoman Empire, claimed independence. |
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It provided for a military alliance between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, if one of them were to be attacked. |
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Moreover, Muhammad Ali had to admit a formal dependence to the Ottoman sultan. |
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Britain could not tolerate Russian dominance of Ottoman affairs, as that would challenge its domination of the eastern Mediterranean. |
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Britain's immediate fear was Russian expansion at the expense of the Ottoman Empire, which the UK desired to preserve. |
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In the Battle of Sinop on 30 November 1853 they destroyed a patrol squadron of Ottoman frigates and corvettes while they were anchored in port. |
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Indeed, like the British, the Austrians were now coming to see that an intact Ottoman Empire was necessary as a bulwark against the Russians. |
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The insurrections were failures that were easily crushed by the Ottoman army. |
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The Great Powers pledged to respect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Kinglake, who portrayed the British as victims of newspaper sensationalism and duplicitous French and Ottoman diplomacy. |
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Under Ottoman rule, the Greek Orthodox Church acquired substantial power as an autonomous millet. |
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Although it would recover Constantinople in 1261, Byzantium fell in 1453 when Constantinople was taken by the Ottoman Empire. |
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In the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Holy League checked Ottoman power in the Mediterranean. |
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They sliced up the losers to form new nations in Europe, and divided up the German colonies and Ottoman holdings outside Turkey. |
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The Balkan folk music was influenced by the mingling of Balkan ethnic groups in the period of Ottoman Empire. |
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At the beginning of the 20th century, the Ottoman Empire continued to control or have a suzerainty over most of the peninsula. |
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In the late 18th century, Kuwait partly functioned as a haven for Basra's merchants, who were fleeing Ottoman government persecution. |
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Ottoman losses are unknown but the British captured a total of 45,000 prisoners of war. |
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Due to these successful expeditions, the Dervish State was recognized as an ally by the Ottoman and German Empires. |
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Vlad fiercely resisted Ottoman rule, having both repelled the Ottomans and been pushed back several times. |
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Ottoman suzerainty remained virtually unchallenged throughout the following 90 years. |
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There is some debate over whether the modern Republic of Turkey is a continuing state to the Ottoman Empire or a successor. |
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Henry also sent monetary support with Manuel II upon his departure to aid him against the Ottoman Empire. |
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Thus, Egypt was by Ottoman law de jure a province of the Ottoman Empire, but de facto was part of the British Empire. |
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The country was divided between the Ottoman and British empires in the early twentieth century. |
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He urged Oais Pasha, the Ottoman colonial governor in Zabid, to attack his father. |
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Mahmud Pasha was described by other Ottoman officials as a corrupt and unscrupulous governor. |
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The Ottoman historian claimed that this incident was celebrated by the Zaydi Shia community in the northern highlands. |
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Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Syria, was ordered by Selim II to suppress the Yemeni rebels. |
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Ottoman troops attacked the Yemenis by hiding at the wells that supplied them with water. |
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Some citizens of Sana'a were desperate to return law and order to Yemen and asked the Ottoman Pasha in Tihama to pacify the country. |
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An Ottoman expedition force tried to capture Sana'a, but was defeated and had to evacuate the highlands. |
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The Opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, strengthened the Ottoman decision to remain in Yemen. |
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A month before the siege of Nice, France supported the Ottomans with an artillery unit during the 1543 Ottoman conquest of Esztergom in northern Hungary. |
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This expansion furthered Ottoman rule in Somalia and the Horn of Africa. |
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The Turkification of Anatolia began under the Seljuk Empire in the late 11th century and continued under the Ottoman Empire between the early 14th and early 20th centuries. |
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During Ottoman times, voivode was the title borne by the ruler of a province, whose powers included the administration, security and tax collection under a special regime. |
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One nagging fear was the possible collapse of the Ottoman Empire. |
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However, corruption was widespread in the Ottoman administration in Yemen. |
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With the economic demands created by the stagnation of the Ottoman Empire, the force diminished and included only mercenaries such as the seimeni. |
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The Ottoman navy recovered quickly, persuading Venice to sign a peace treaty in 1573, allowing the Ottomans to expand and consolidate their position in North Africa. |
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Issued less than a year before the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the bull may have been intended to begin another crusade against the Ottoman Empire. |
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Following in the tank's wake, the cameliers reached the first line of Turkish trenches, where they confronted a handful of Ottoman soldiers too wounded to retreat. |
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As late as 1908, female slaves were still sold in the Ottoman Empire. |
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The last of Ottoman censuses was performed with the 1914 census. |
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In response, the Ottoman governor of Cyprus arrested and executed 486 prominent Greek Cypriots, including the Archbishop of Cyprus, Kyprianos, and four other bishops. |
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Generally he is accounted an Azeri Turkic rather than an Ottoman poet though frequently, like Kadi Biirhaneddin and Fuzuli, he is included in lists of Ottoman Turkish poets. |
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De Roover mentions, however, the war between Venice and the Ottoman Empire and the relevant firms' connections to that area as a possible factor as well. |
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