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The rise of the Ottoman Empire

In the 15th century, the Turkish Ottomans already dominated large parts of today's Turkey, the Balkans and the north of Greece. On May 29, 1453, they conquered Constantinople and thus wiped out the Byzantine Empire. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire, with incredible speed and efficiency, more than doubled its territory...
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