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Turkish Empire

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noun

  1. another name for the Ottoman Empire

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Anyhow, it matters little," he concluded a report on the Turkish Empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up to the fall of the Turkish Empire its ruler was both Sultan and Caliph or "pope" of Islam.

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

The further diminution of the Turkish Empire will doubtless see a corresponding revival of western conditions and methods.

From The Roman Empire in the Light of Prophecy The Rise, Progress, and End of the Fourth World-empire by Vine, W. E.

The Mohammedan population increases more slowly, notwithstanding the practice of polygamy, than the Christian population of the Turkish Empire.

From Oriental Women by Pollard, Edward Bagby

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