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The Venetians in Shakespeare's time are the same thing as the Venetians are today--people who live in Venice. Only in Shakespeare's time, Venice was a powerful independent country with a lot of overseas holdings, especially in Dalmatia and the Greek islands, and was the main resistance to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).
Well, Romeo and Juliet was thought to be written in about 1595. In that year Mehmet III became sultan of the Ottoman Empire, but his general Sinan Pasha lost two significant actions against armies in the Balkans. You did ask.
Different people in different places. In Scotland, King James VI. Sigismund III Vasa was the leader of the powerful and significant Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In France it was Henri IV. England was drawing to the end of Elizabeth I's reign. Mehmed III, sometimes called the Just was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire at this time. Ming China was under the rule of the Wanli Emperor.
The Harem politics played a huge role in the decline of the Ottoman Empire. When the oldest prince becomes the sultan, he would either kill all of his siblings, or imprison them in the palace, and they were given no education. So if that sultan dies without an offspring, one of his brothers would become the sultan, but because he was imprisoned, he wouldn't know anything, and may even be illiterate. The Harem politics played a huge role in the decline of the Ottoman Empire. When the oldest prince becomes the sultan, he would either kill all of his siblings, or imprison them in the palace, and they were given no education. So if that sultan dies without an offspring, one of his brothers would become the sultan, but because he was imprisoned, he wouldn't know anything, and may even be illiterate.
The duke in the beginning of Act one scene three when he says "Valiant Othello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman" up until then most of the characters call him "the moor". This is important because that he is first acknowledged by name in a military setting suggests he is only accepted by the venetians because he is a useful commander.
The Greeks launched a war of independence in order to liberate themselves from Ottoman Occupation in 1821. The Romantic movement in UK and France led to the armies of those countries buttressing the Greeks in their independence war. After their victory in 1827, the Greeks began to fight the Ottomans for more territory for Greece.
They organized a resistance movement and gained independence from the allies
Independence
9 May 1877, independence from Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria was established in 1878 by the Treaty of Berlin as an autonomous republic within the Ottoman Empire. Independence from the Ottoman Empire was proclaimed in 1908.
Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829
Ottoman Empire
Greek worked with the Great Powers of Europe and fought for their independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Greece
Ottoman rule
A. I. Bagis has written: 'Britain and the struggle for the integrity of the Ottoman Empire'
Greece.