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In the 14th century, several vigorous leaders expanded their territories east into central Anatolia and west across the Dardanelles (in 1356) onto European soil in the Byzantine lands of Macedonia and modern Bulgaria. Exchanging grants of revenue-producing conquered land (timars) for military service, the Ottomans built botha a formidable fighting force and a loyal military aristocracy.

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