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Ottoman Empire Invasion Map

Ottoman Empire Invasion Map - The origins of the ottomans can be traced back to the late 11th century when a few small muslim emirates of turkic origins and nomadic nature—called beyliks—started. From the point of its inception in 1299, the ottoman empire expanded rapidly, mostly at the expense of european powers and rival muslim states. Though defeated by timur in 1402, by 1453 the ottomans, under mehmed ii (the conquerer), had destroyed the byzantine empire and captured its capital, constantinople (now istanbul ), which henceforth served as the ottoman capital. In addition to showing the approximate extent of the ottoman state in about. the empire reached its apex under suleiman the magnificent in the 16th century, when it stretched from the persian gulf.