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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Collection of facts about the Ottoman Empire

This post is a collection of facts about the Ottoman Empire (c. 1299 - 1922). There are 32 facts listed below.

• Based in Anatolia
• Occupied Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa
• Capitals: Söğüt, Nicaea, Bursa, Adrianople and Constantinople
• Founded by Osman I (c. 1299)
• Byzantine-Ottoman wars (1299-1453)
• Hungarian-Ottoman wars (1366-1718)
• Ottoman-Venetian wars (1396-1718)
• Albanian-Ottoman wars (1432-1479)
• Fall of Constantinople (1453)
• Spanish-Ottoman wars (1492-1792)
• Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520-1566)
• Ottoman-Habsburg wars (1526-1791)
• Siege of Vienna (1529)
• Great Siege of Malta (1565)
• Russo-Turkish wars (1568-1918)
• Battle of Lepanto (1571)
• Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
• Battle of Vienna (1683)
• Serbian Revolution (1804-1815)
• Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
• First Egyptian-Ottoman War (1831-1833)
• Second Egyptian-Ottoman War (1839-1841)
• Crimean War (1853-1856)
• Romanian War of Independence (1877-1878)
• Young Turk Revolution (1908)
• First Balkan War (1912-1913)
• Greek genocide (1913-1923)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Armenia genocide (1915-1917)
• Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923)
• Treaty of Sèvres (1920)
• Succeeded by Republic of Turkey

Sources

Wikipedia: Ottoman Empire, Byzantine-Ottoman wars, Hungarian-Ottoman wars, Ottoman-Venetian wars, Albanian-Ottoman wars, Spanish-Ottoman wars, Ottoman-Habsburg wars, Russo-Turkish wars, Greek War of Independence, Romanian War of Independence, Greek genocide, Armenian genocide