in the early 1300s, a Turk named Osman 1 started the Ottoman dynasty in northern Anatolia.
The Ottoman Empire expanded under nearly every Ottoman Sultan until Selim II, all 11 of the early Ottoman Emperors (Osman I to Suleiman I) conquered new territories for the Empire.
Justinian expanded the Byzantine Empire through means of war and the conquering other lands. The additions of the former Roman provinces of Italia, Baetica, and Africa Proconsularis expanded the Byzantine Empire to it's largest point in history.
Yes. the Byzantine empire is just another name for the Roman empire when it was headquartered in the east. The citizens there considered themselves Romans and lived under Roman law and Roman customs.
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There have been may empires throughout history. A few of them are: the Persian empire, the Parthian empire, the Roman empire, the Byzantine empire, the Mogul empire, the Ottoman empire, the Chinese empire with its various dynasties, the Egyptian empire, the Babylonian empire, the British empire, in other words, any group of people who expanded their territory and ruled under their own laws was an empire.
The Byzantine Empire did not recover from the fall of Constantinople to the Turks because the Turks were a strong local power which captured all of the remaining byzantine territory. Whereas the 4th Crusaders were few in number after they divided up the empire and they only captured part of the Byzantine Empire, the remainder of the Empire split into independent Byzantine powers, one of which the Empire of Nicaea eventually recaptured Constantinople and restored the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Empire expanded and collapsed much like an accordion
The Ottoman Empire expanded by conquering territory from neighboring states. In some cases, such as the Byzantine Empire (and all of its Despotates), the Sultante of Rum, the Empire of Trebizond, the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, and several Balkans States, were entirely consumeed by the Ottoman Empire. Others such as the Hungarian Empire and Romania were not entirely conquered but lost some lands.
The territory belonging to the Byzantine empire was the eastern half of the Roman Empire. This included much of central Europe and had Constantinople as it's capital.
Justinian expanded the Byzantine Empire through means of war and the conquering other lands. The additions of the former Roman provinces of Italia, Baetica, and Africa Proconsularis expanded the Byzantine Empire to it's largest point in history.
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Yes. the Byzantine empire is just another name for the Roman empire when it was headquartered in the east. The citizens there considered themselves Romans and lived under Roman law and Roman customs.
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There have been may empires throughout history. A few of them are: the Persian empire, the Parthian empire, the Roman empire, the Byzantine empire, the Mogul empire, the Ottoman empire, the Chinese empire with its various dynasties, the Egyptian empire, the Babylonian empire, the British empire, in other words, any group of people who expanded their territory and ruled under their own laws was an empire.
The Byzantine Empire did not recover from the fall of Constantinople to the Turks because the Turks were a strong local power which captured all of the remaining byzantine territory. Whereas the 4th Crusaders were few in number after they divided up the empire and they only captured part of the Byzantine Empire, the remainder of the Empire split into independent Byzantine powers, one of which the Empire of Nicaea eventually recaptured Constantinople and restored the Byzantine Empire.
From about 1900 B.C. to 600 B.C. Assyria expanded its territory.
The Songhai Empire was built by Sunni Ali, a skilled military leader who expanded their territory through conquest and control of trade routes in West Africa. He ruled the empire from 1464 to 1492.
The underlying premise of the question is incorrect. The Byzantine Empire never converted to Islam and Islam was, by and large, illegal within the Byzantine Empire for as long as it existed. The reason why the territory formerly controlled by the Byzantine Empire became Muslim-majority was because it was conquered by various Islamic States such as the Rashidun Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate, the Seljuq Turkish Empire, and the Ottoman Empire (which finished the job).