Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Collection of facts about the Ottoman Empire

This post is a collection of facts about the Ottoman Empire (c. 1299 - 1922). There are 32 facts listed below.

  • Based in Anatolia
  • Occupied Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa
  • Capitals: Söğüt, Nicaea, Bursa, Adrianople and Constantinople
  • Founded by Osman I (c. 1299)
  • Byzantine-Ottoman wars (1299-1453)
  • Hungarian-Ottoman wars (1366-1718)
  • Ottoman-Venetian wars (1396-1718)
  • Albanian-Ottoman wars (1432-1479)
  • Fall of Constantinople (1453)
  • Spanish-Ottoman wars (1492-1792)
  • Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566)
  • Ottoman-Habsburg wars (1526-1791)
  • Siege of Vienna (1529)
  • Great Siege of Malta (1565)
  • Russo-Turkish wars (1568-1918)
  • Battle of Lepanto (1571)
  • Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
  • Battle of Vienna (1683)
  • Serbian Revolution (1804-1815)
  • Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
  • First Egyptian-Ottoman War (1831-1833)
  • Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839-1841)
  • Crimean War (1853-1856)
  • Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878)
  • Young Turk Revolution (1908)
  • First Balkan War (1912-1913)
  • Greek genocide (1913-1923)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Armenia genocide (1915-1917)
  • Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923)
  • Treaty of Sèvres (1920)
  • Succeeded by Republic of Turkey

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