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.
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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.
Russia tried to gain control but was only partially successful. Territories such as modern Armenia and Azerbaijan were once Ottoman but were lost to Russia. Much of the Balkans fought for independence from the Ottomans but didn't become Russian.
One of the major challenges faced by the Ottoman Empire was determining how to govern many different regions.
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 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.
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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.
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.
Russia tried to gain control but was only partially successful. Territories such as modern Armenia and Azerbaijan were once Ottoman but were lost to Russia. Much of the Balkans fought for independence from the Ottomans but didn't become Russian.
One of the major challenges faced by the Ottoman Empire was determining how to govern many different regions.
There was no justification for the expansion of the Ottoman Empire because in the 13th to 17th centuries, a nation did not have to justify to outsiders why it was expanding. If a nation, such as the Ottoman Empire, was powerful, it would expand into new regions and improve its internal economy and infrastructure. There is similarly no justification for the expansion of the Hungarian Empire, Polish Empire, or Russian Empire.
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.
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 First World War begain in 1914, but the United States of America entered the war much later on, in 1917. It allied itself with the British Empire, Kingdom of Italy, the French Republic and the Russian Empire. These countries were fighting the war against a rival alliance of countries called the "Central Powers" - this included the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.