Yes. Bursa was the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1326-1365.
Yes, the Ottoman Empire, at one point, controlled Cyprus.
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No Ottoman Emperor ever converted to Catholicism. They were all Muslims.
Most historians of the Ottoman Empire will argue that the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmet II was the important victory that Ottomans ever won.
It has had a mixed economy ever since the end of the ottoman empire
Italy, Roman Empire, The Spanish Ottoman Empire. But Libya has not colonized anyone. Italy's colonize went from 1911-1943, The Roman Empires went on from 146 BC-640 AD, Spanish ruled them from 1510-1530, The Ottoman empire went from 1551-1911.
Even though they were Turks, the Ottoman Empire never called themselves Turks. They opened the doors to whomever wanted to serve the empire. They gathered the smartest population for 600 years and ruled large portions of the world. Ottomans were not cruel towards the countries that they conquered. They did not make foreign people slaves or force them to be Muslims, although non-Muslims within the Empire paid additional taxes and were excluded from some activities. The Ottoman Empire was the best organized Turkish empire ever. Before the Ottomans, there were many Turkish states or empires; however, they were not as successful as the Ottomans.
Yes, parts of modern-day Lebanon were once part of the Ottoman Empire, which was based in present-day Turkey. The Ottoman Empire controlled Lebanon from the early 16th century until the end of World War I in 1918. Following the war, Lebanon was placed under French mandate, leading to its eventual independence in 1943. Thus, while Lebanon was never a part of Turkey as a modern nation-state, it was historically part of the territories governed by the Ottoman Empire.
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The largest empire the world had ever known up to 1580 was the Mongol Empire (1206-1368) which covered an area of 12.74 million square miles. This empire is the second largest one in history after the British Empire (13.01 million square miles) The largest empire in 1580 was the Ming Empire of China (1368-1640) of the Ming dynasty of China which, with a surface of 2.51million square miles was as big as the Roman Empire had been. The second largest empire was the Ottoman Empire of the Ottoman dynasty of Turkey (1453-1922, 2.01 square miles). The third largest empire was Northern Yan Dynast of Mongolia (1.93 square miles). The fourth largest empire was the Safavid Empire of the Safavid dynasty of Persia (1501-1736, 1.35 million square miles).