Ottomans captured much of Ukraine from Poland, and in 1669 completed the conquest of Crete (Kríti), the last grea...
Anatolia were crowned with the capture in 1326 of the provincial capital Bursa by his son Orhan, which gave the Ottomans...
Finally, the deaths of the principal Tanzimat leaders about 1870 left the autocratic structure of government they had cr...
Most Alevis are ethnic Turks, although they also include significant numbers of Kurds and Arabs. Strict Sunnis consider ...
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