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The military of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nun silahlı kuvvetleri) was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. It was founded in 1299 and dissolved in 1922. It was founded in 1299 and dissolved in 1922.
Military personnel in the Ottoman Empire were assigned different duties according to their capabilities in order to administer the Armed Forces and particularly to be successful in battle. They were given various ranks so that they could conduct relations with each other and be fully aware of their duties.
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum territorial extent, at the zenith of its power in the second half of the 16th century, stretched from central Europe to the Persian Gulf and from the Caspian Sea to North Africa.
This is a List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire ordered chronologically, including civil wars within the empire. The earliest form of the Ottoman military was a nomadic steppe cavalry force. [1] This was centralized by Osman I from Turkoman tribesmen inhabiting western Anatolia in the late 13th century.
A fortification built by the Baron de Tott for the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). When Selim III came to the throne in 1789, an ambitious effort of military reform was launched, geared towards securing the Ottoman Empire. The sultan and those who surrounded him were conservative and desired to preserve the status quo.
The Ottoman Empire used Janissaries in all its major campaigns, including the 1453 capture of Constantinople, the defeat of the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo and wars against Hungary and Austria. Janissary troops were always led to the battle by the Sultan himself, and always had a share of the loot .
The medieval Ottoman Empire had become the first country to maintain a standing army in Europe since the days of the Roman Empire. [2] [need quotation to verify] [3] The force originated in the 14th century. The Ottoman army may have also the been the first to equip with firearms, which they acquired during the reign of Murad II (r. 1421–1451 ...
The Ottoman Empire was an absolute monarchy during much of its existence. By the second half of the fifteenth century, the sultan sat at the apex of a hierarchical system and acted in political, military, judicial, social, and religious capacities under a variety of titles.