Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i Âliyye-i Osmâniyye
1299–1923
Banner Coat o airms
Motto: دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State)
Anthem: Ottoman imperial anthem
Expansion o the Ottoman Empire atween 1481 an 1683 (excludin Algerie, Sudan, Hejaz, Asir and Yemen)
Caipital	Söğüt (1299–1309) Yarhisar (1309-1314) İnegöl (1314-1326) Bursa (1326–1365) Adrianople (1365–1453) Constantinople (1453–1922)
Common leids	Ottoman Turkish (offeecial), mony ethers
Releegion	Offeecial releegion: Sunni Islam Minority releegions: Eastren Orthodox, Rouman Catholic, Judaism, Shiaism
Govrenment	Absolute monarchy (1299-1876) (1878-1908) (1918-1922) Constitutional monarchy (1876-1878) (1908-1918)
Sultan
• 1281–1326 (first)	Osman I
• 1918–1922 (last)	Mehmed VI
Grand Vizier
• 1320–1331 (first)	Alaeddin Pasha
• 1920–1922 (last)	Ahmed Tevfik Pasha
Legislatur	Imperial Parliament
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	Chamber o Deputies
History
• Established	1299
• Disestablished	29 October 1923
Aurie
1683	5,200,000 km2 (2,000,000 sq mi)
1914	1,800,000 km2 (690,000 sq mi)
Currency	Akçe, Para, Kuruş, Lira, Sultanî
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Byzantine Empire Sultanate o Rûm Empire o Trebizond Despotate o the Morea Despotate o Epirus Despotate o Dobruja Karamanids Kinrick o Bosnie Bulgarie Empire Serbie Empire League o Lezhë Mamluk Sultanate Kinrick o Hungary in the Middle Ages Algerie an Tunis Turkish Provisional Govrenment Hellenic Republic Sultanate o Egyp Condominium o Bosnie an Herzegovinae Principality o Serbie Provisional Govrenment o Albanie Kinrick o Romanie Principality o Bulgarie Breetish Cyprus French Algerie French Tunisie Sheikhdom o Kuwait OETA Italian North Africae Yemen
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The Ottoman Empire, kent offeecially as Sublime Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkis: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye, Modren Turkis: Yüce Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) wis an empire that lastit frae 1299 tae 1923.

At the hicht o its pouer, in the saxteent an seiventeent centuries, the empire spanned three continents, controlling the feck o Sootheastren Europe, Wastren Asie an North Africae The Ottoman Empire conteened 29 provinces an numerous vassal states, some o which wur later absorbed intae the empire, while ithers wur grantit various teeps o autonomy in the course o centuries. The empire temporarily gained authority ower distkant owerseas lands forby, throu declarations o allegiance tae the Ottoman Sultan an Caliph, lik the declaration bi the Sultan o Aceh in 1565; or throu the temporar acquisitions o islands in the Atlantic Ocean, lik Lanzarote in 1585.

The empire wis at the centre o interactions atween the Eastern an Wastren warlds for sax centuries. Wi Constantinople as its caipital ceety, an vast control o lands aroond the eastren Mediterranean throu the reign o Suleiman the Magnificent (ruled 1520 tae 1566), the Ottoman Empire wis, in mony respeckkts, an Islamic successor tae the Eastren Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

kThe Ottoman Empire came tae an end, as a regime unner an imperial monarchy, on November 1Template:Hguohltknjhyio5yktlnyi65kynhan, Mehmed VI deportit frae Constantinople on November 17. It formally endit, as a de jure state, on Julie 24, 1923, unner the Treaty o Lausanne. Wi the Treaty of Lausanne (signed on Julie 24, 1923) the new Turkis State (still nae a Republic, whilk wis proclaimed later on October 29, 1923) heidquartered in Ankara wis internaitionally recognised as the successor tae the Sublime Ottoman State. It wis succeedit bi the Republic o Turkey whilk wis offeecially proclaimed on October 29, 1923.

The empire wis forby kent in Inglis as the Osmanic Empire, the Osmanian Empire or the Ottoman State. Mony contemporaries referred tae it as the Turkis Empire or simply Turkey ee the ither names o the Ottoman State).