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The Ottoman Empire was populated by the
Turkish people are founders of the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman tribe founded the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Tribe was a subdivision of Oghuz Türk group of tribes from Central Asia (today's Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). The Ottomans are those who migrated to east Anatolia and conquered parts of the Anatolian plateau under the command of Osman I, from whom the name derives. (Osman - Osman عثمان and Ottoman - Osmanli عثمانلي have the same root in Ottoman Turkish.)
While the overwhelming majority of the Ottoman Empire was made up of Sunni Moslems and Orthodox Christians, there was a large minority of Shiites in the southern Mesopotamian Provinces of the Ottoman Empire and a Shiite remnant in North Africa.
The Ottoman Empire was an incredibly diverse empire, which had large Turkish, Arab, Jewish, Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, Greek, Macedonian, Romanian, Berber, Hungarian, Yugoslavs, and Bulgars (not necessarily in the order of Population).
The following are the modern day countries of which all of their territory (except sparsely populated regions) was controlled by the Ottoman Empire at some point:AlgeriaLibyaTunisiaMaltaEgyptIsraelPalestineJordanLebanonSyriaCyprusIraqKuwaitQatarBahrainUnited Arab EmiratesTurkeyGreeceBulgariaRomaniaMoldovaFYRO MacedoniaAlbaniaKosovoSerbiaBosnia & HerzegovinaCroatiaSloveniaHungaryModern-Day Countries of which some of their territory was controlled by the Ottoman Empire at some point:ItalyAustriaSlovakiaUkraineGeorgiaArmeniaAzerbaijanIranOmanYemenSaudi ArabiaSudanMorocco
The Ottoman Empire was a nation.
Yes, Turkish people were in the Ottoman empire.
The Arabian Empire was primarily Muslim, as was the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire had four capitals.
Osman I is attributed to finding The Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire had 29 provinces.