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.
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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.
He came from a long line of bankers who had financed trade in the old Ottoman empire.
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?
Serbia's defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 ushered in centuries of rule by the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
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.
For the past 90 years Turkey has in fact neglected the Arab lands of the former Ottoman empire and focused on the West.
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.
Part of the Turkish Ottoman empire from the 16th century, Algeria was conquered by the French in 1830 and was given the status of a "departement".
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.
Botros was a rebel, though within limits: he thought the collapsing Ottoman empire could be saved as a constitutional monarchy, a state composed of many nations.
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.
Well, one of his ancestors was instructed by the then Sultan Abdul Hamid I in the late 18th century to fix the already ailing Ottoman empire's finances.
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.
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