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Turkish Empire SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Africa p.12
▸ ▸ Asia p.29
For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Turks ruled one of ▸ ▸ Buildings p.48
the largest empires the world has ever seen. It stretched ▸ ▸ Crafts p.75
from North Africa across the Middle East to the Indian ▸ ▸ Europe p.94

Ocean. The Ottomans were Muslims, but they ▸ ▸ Flags p.102
ruled over many different people. ▸ ▸ Religion p.208

Ottoman leader The famous Blue Mosque
In 1299, a Turkish leader, Osman I, in Istanbul, Turkey, was
founded what was to become a new completed in 1616.
Turkish empire—the Ottoman Empire.
The same family of sultans ruled
this empire for 600 years.

Osman I led the Turks
from 1299 to 1323.

Religious empire
The Ottomans were Muslims, which
means they followed the religion of
Islam. They built grand buildings called
mosques to pray in. Many of their
mosques are still in use today.

The capital
of the Ottoman
Empire was
Constantinople,
which is now known
as Istanbul.

Flower patterns
were often used to
decorate Iznik pottery. The republic
The Ottoman Empire
Turkish art ended in 1922, and the
The Turks made beautiful sultans were no longer
pottery in the town of Iznik in charge. The next year,
Turkey became a republic,
in northwest Turkey. They with its people voting to
also wove wool carpets choose the leaders. Flag of Turkey
and tapestries.

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