When the Ottoman Empire ended during World War I, it controlled the territory of modern Turkey, plus what are now: Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Armenia and part of the peninsula where Saudi Arabia is.
The Ottoman Empire also controlled Egypt and Kuwait, but this control was not well-enforced, and those countries largely acted independent of the Sultan's control (both were actually closely aligned with the UK). Most of modern Saudi Arabia was similarly independent.
No, much much larger. It covered today's Libya, Egypt, the Middle East, Persia, Central Asia and Pakistan, in addition to having control of modern day Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was the famous empire (several centuries later) that was based out of Turkey and which became Turkey after World War I.
The Ottoman Empire ceded much of its territory, and European nations took control. Additionally, there was a coup d'etat by senior Military Officers called the Young Turks (Jön Türkler) who proclaimed the Government of the Republic of Turkey, ending the Ottoman Empire in 1923.
The Ottoman Empire spanned much more than just the city of Bethlehem. Bethlehem was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to the early 1900s.
The Ottoman Empire[dn 4] or Sublime Ottoman State(Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye[7] (also عثمانلى دولتى Osmanlı Devleti),[dn 5] Modern Turkish: Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was a Turkish empire which lasted from 27 July 1299[8] to 29 October 1923.[9]The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in history; such that the Ottoman State, its politics, conflicts, and cultural heritage in a vast geography provide one of the longest continuous narratives. During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the empire was one of the most powerful states in the world - a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary (modern Slovakia) and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east;[10] controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.[11] The empire contained 29 provinces and numerous vassal states, some of which were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.[dn 6]With Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Ottoman Turkish: استنبول, Istanbul[12] and قسطنطينيه, Kostantiniyye) as its capital city,[13][14] and vast control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries.After the international recognition of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) headquartered in Ankara, by means of the Treaty of Lausanne signed on 24 July 1923, the GNAT proclaimed on 29 October 1923 the establishment of the Republic of Turkey as the new Turkish State that succeeded and formally ended the defunct Ottoman Empire, in line with the treaty.
The decline of the Ottoman Empire in the decades before World War I left a power vacuum. The European countries made secret alliances about how to take control of the former Ottoman lands, eventually leading to the war.
The Ottoman Empire lost much of its territory in the Middle East, but new leaders were able to establish an independent Turkey after the war.
The Ottoman Empire controlled most of the eastern Mediterranean. It even conquered a small part of Greece. That was in the olden times.
Mehmet Resat was the ruler of Turkey during the 1st World War. Altough he was the official ruler of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was leading the country to overcome the sovereignity and bring back the democracy. Mehmet Resat died in July 1919. From July to November(last four months of World War) the last sultan of Turkey, Vahdettin, ruled the country as a representative of the Ottoman empire until the Armistice of Mudros was signed.
After world war 1, The Ottoman Empire also lost with their allience Germany. *After the Ottomans lost WWI, the lost most of their Arab land to France and England. It was dissolved by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder of Turkey. Ataturk then founded The Republic of Turkey.
One of the major challenges faced by the Ottoman Empire was determining how to govern many different regions.
The goal was to knock Turkey out of the war, then concentrate on Germany and Austria. Although the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire was in severe decline, their army proved to be much tougher than the Allies anticipated, and Gallipoli was a failure.
The Advent of western culture on the Ottoman Empire led to the breakdown of Ottoman Empire which was different from the current one which was once centered on religion.