Turkish Empire
Britishnoun
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Up to the fall of the Turkish Empire its ruler was both Sultan and Caliph or "pope" of Islam.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Anyhow, it matters little," he concluded a report on the Turkish Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The time was the ill-fated Crimean War of 1853-56, in which a British-French expeditionary force, after many a blunder, frustrated Czarist Russia's plans to swallow the Turkish Empire.
From Time Magazine Archive
But during the latter part of the Middle Ages while the power and glory of the Roman Empire was gradually declining, the rival Mohammedan Turkish Empire in Asia was rapidly ascending to a dominant position.
From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie
Though still a part of the Turkish Empire, and paying an annual tribute to the Sultan, it had its own separate government.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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