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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.

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