It dates back to the 1600s after the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks.
Ciragan was the last palace built in Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire for royal family members.
Demonstrators disapprove of plans to rebuild old Ottoman barracks and create a shopping arcade.
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Turkish artists hand-painted the walls with intricate Ottoman designs and the bathrooms have hammam-style basins.
The British took over Palestine and three Ottoman provinces of Mesopotamia and created modern-day Iraq.
It was a remarkable sight: wild dolphins against the backdrop of shipyards and centuries-old Ottoman palaces.
That is, after all, how Bosnia has been ruled since the Ottoman conquest in 1463.
As Mr Figes recalls, the tactical friendship between Western Christians and Ottoman Muslims had its limits.
The carvings were acquired by Lord Elgin when Greece was part of the Ottoman empire.
For its part, Komotini offers an intriguing archaeological museum and Byzantine and Ottoman structures.
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The concert failed when greed for Ottoman spoils prevailed over the ideal of co-operation.
The Ottoman room is in updated Turkish style, with deep-red bedspreads, fabrics and oriental carpets.
The house is a nineteenth-century Ottoman complex, built around a courtyard with a tiled pool.
In fact Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Sudan were all once part of the Ottoman empire.
The emergence of Balkan nationalism gets less attention than the deterioration of Ottoman fashion.
The migrations began in the 19th century when the Balkans were part of the Ottoman Empire.
In Ottoman times the Armenians, Greeks and Jews were responsible for most of the country's commerce.
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Inexplicably, he alludes only in passing to the 1915 Ottoman pogrom against the Armenians in Anatolia.
Similarly, the Janissaries, the elite slave troops of the Ottoman emperors, were not allowed to marry.
In the Ottoman empire (and in some post-Ottoman places), Christian and Jewish minorities flourished in business.
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
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In our room there is an oversized leather chair with an ottoman and a large floor lamp.
In writing of the Christian East, he makes good points about religious nationalism in the post-Ottoman world.
Instead, he had taken the marbles with the full authority of the Ottoman Empire, their then owners.
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"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.
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