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Territorial changes of the Ottoman Empire 1912, after Libya was lost in the Turco-Italian War, and on the eve of the First Balkan War The Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War (also known in Italy as guerra di Libia , "the Libyan war", and in Turkey as Trablusgarp Savaşı ) was fought between the Ottoman Empire and Italy from September 29, 1911 ...
In addition to territory under direct imperial administration, the Ottoman Empire also possessed varying degrees of sovereignty over its many vassal states.Each vassal state's relationship with the empire was unique, but typically involved the payment of tribute, military contribution, or both.
From 1699 onwards, the Ottoman Empire began to lose territory over the course of the next two centuries due to internal stagnation, costly defensive wars, European colonialism, and nationalist revolts among its multiethnic subjects. In any case, the need to modernise was evident to the empire's leaders by the early 19th century, and numerous ...
A map of the territorial expansion of the Ottoman Empire from 1307 to 1683. This article provides a timeline of the Ottoman Empire. This timeline is incomplete; some important events may be missing. Please help add to it.
This period of time saw the fall of the Spanish colonial empire to the United States and the progression of European colonial efforts. This period also saw the reshaping of Europe with the rise of the German Empire and Italy as unified states, while the Ottoman Empire's territory in Europe steadily dissolved.
The Ottoman Empire took its first foreign loans on 4 August 1854, [20] shortly after the beginning of the Crimean War. [21] The war caused an exodus of the Crimean Tatars. From the total Tatar population of 300,000 in the Tauride Province, about 200,000 Crimean Tatars moved to the Ottoman Empire in continuing waves of emigration. [22]
The Ottoman Empire regains the portions of Eastern Thrace it lost in the First Balkan War. The Balkan League gains all Ottoman territory west of the line joining Enez and Kıyıköy; thus the Ottomans lose all their European territory, except for what is roughly the southeastern half of Turkey's present-day European territory. 1914: 1 January
The Ottoman Empire of the Classical Age experienced dramatic territorial growth. The period opened with the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481) in 1453. Mehmed II went on to consolidate the empire's position in the Balkans and Anatolia , conquering Serbia in 1454–55, the Peloponnese in 1458–59, Trebizond in 1461, and ...