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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Turkish Empire breaks up, it will be no easy matter how to settle in whose hands Jerusalem shall be placed. 

From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

For some reason or other they had been evacuated from some part of the Turkish Empire further east, and dumped down at Afion.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John

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