Ottoman Empire
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Devlet-i Ð'liye-i Osmвniyye
دولتِ عَليه عُثمانيه
Ottoman Flag
Ottoman Coat of Arms
Late Ottoman Flag Ottoman Coat of Arms
Imperial motto
(Ottoman Turkish) دولت ابد مدت
Devlet-i Ebed-mÑŒddet
("The Eternal State")
Map of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power (1683)
Official language Ottoman Turkish
Capital SцğÑŒt (1299-1326),
Bursa (1326-1365),
Edirne (1365-1453),
Constantinople (1453-1922)
Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem
Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanlı Dynasty
Population ca 40 million
Area 6.3m kmІ (1902);
maximum extent 19.9m kmІ(1595 estimate)
Establishment 1299
Dissolution October 29, 1923
Currency AkÐ*e, Kuruş, Lira
See also
Part of the History of Turkey series
The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: دولت عليه عثمانيه Devlet-i Ð'liye-i Osmвniyye; literally, "The Sublime Ottoman State"), also sometimes known in the West as the Turkish Empire, existed from 1299 to 1923. At the height of its power in the 16th and 17th centuries, its territory included Anatolia, the Middle East, parts of North Africa, and much of south-eastern Europe to the Caucasus.
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