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/Home/Historical Studies/History/Ottoman Empire History Essay 86 Votes:0 The Ottoman Empire: Large and Lengthy ~~ Paul V. Hartman ~~ T he Ottomans were nomadic people from central Asia who took over the remnant of the Byzantine Empire, centered on Constantinople. The slow invasion began about 1300, with Constantinople falling in 1453. The empire derives its name from Osman (sometimes Othman), the founder and first sultan. It derived its strength from special groups of highly trained soldiers called Janizaries (Janissaries). This fighting corps was non-Turk, in fact, were the slave children of conquered Christians, raised in Islam and devoted to the sultan. Within a hundred years of 1453, the edges of the new empire included Turkey, southeastern Europe, Egypt and north Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. The empire peaked under Sultan Suleiman I (1520 - 1566) Read More Go to Site The Rise of the Turks and the Ottoman Empire Votes:0 The Rise of the Turks and the Ottoman Empire [Excerpted from Turkey: A Country Study. Paul M. Pitman III, ed. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, 1987] Turkish Origins The first historical references to the Turks appear in Chinese records of about 200 B.C. These records refer to tribes called the Hsiung-nu, an early form of the Western term Hun, who lived in an area bounded by the Altai Mountains, Lake Baikal, and the northern edge of the Gobi Desert and are believed to have been the ancestors of the Turks. Specific references in Chinese sources in the sixth century A.D. identify the tribal kingdom called Tu-KÜe located on the Orkhon River south of Lake Baikal. The khans (chiefs) of this tribe accepted the nominal suzerainty of the Tang dynasty. The earlie Read More Go to Site

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