Ciragan was the last palace built in Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire for royal family members.
The carvings were acquired by Lord Elgin when Greece was part of the Ottoman empire.
In fact Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Sudan were all once part of the Ottoman empire.
The migrations began in the 19th century when the Balkans were part of the Ottoman Empire.
In the Ottoman empire (and in some post-Ottoman places), Christian and Jewish minorities flourished in business.
The Eurozone is less suitable as a single currency than the Ottoman Empire of 1800.
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Instead, he had taken the marbles with the full authority of the Ottoman Empire, their then owners.
"It's a magnificent story with so many interesting elements: the Ottoman empire, Islam versus Christianity, " Ritchie said.
He takes out yellowing documents dating back to the Ottoman Empire that he claims prove his ownership.
Poles also remember that throughout the 19th century the Ottoman empire refused to recognise their country's elimination.
Battle of Kosovo in 1389 in which an army from the Ottoman Empire defeated a Serbian force.
For the first time since the fall of the Ottoman Empire an overtly Islamic movement had seized political power.
In 1716, he was sent to Constantinople as ambassador to the Ottoman empire.
What happened to the national cuisines of the Ottoman Empire's various ethnic groups?
Nine out of ten Circassians now live in diaspora: survivors fled to all corners of the Ottoman empire and beyond.
Coffee spread to Europe by two routes - from the Ottoman Empire, and by sea from the original coffee port of Mocha.
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Like an estimated 3, 647 ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Kadorian's father bought a life insurance policy from New York Life Insurance Co.
Now, this is a kind of separate but related kind of beef, and it has to do with how the Ottoman Empire treated the Armenians.
They realize that, with the possible exception of the Ottoman empire in its chaotic last decades, no superpower has ever pursued a more absurd strategy.
The Ottoman Empire, which lasted from 1299 to 1923, was, for over a century, the most powerful state in the world, extending over three continents.
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Everyone is familiar with the Elgin Marbles, removed by Lord Elgin from the Parthenon in the early 19th century under the eyes of the Ottoman Empire.
The Jews of Thessaloniki were mostly Sephardic ones, who immigrated to the city, then part of the Ottoman Empire, after 1492 to escape persecution in Spain.
With the monarch's approval, Potemkin colonised Crimea, did battle with the Ottoman empire and dreamed up an ambitious plan for reinstating a Christian emperor in Constantinople.
The Europeans, who had colonized much of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, completed the takeover with the territories of Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
There are also consequences of the pathologies that have taken hold of the Arab and Muslim world since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire 90 years ago.
There they commemorated the 90th anniversary of the San Remo Conference which determined the legal status of the Ottoman Empire after its break-up in World War I.
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, Arab states like Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been the widely recognized leaders of the Islamic world.
These two slightly dusty inland towns are notable for their Turkish-speaking minorities, holdovers from the Ottoman Empire, who still purvey succulent Eastern sweets such as lokum and baklava.
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But many of these are descendants of Christians who were killed or deported as the Ottoman empire collapsed, and went on to be big traders in provincial African towns.
In the late 19th Century, Russians fought the British, French and the Ottoman Turks from these Crimean shores, as a part of an extended conflict over the spoils of the Ottoman Empire.
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