A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Were the Ottomans Out of Place in the Modern World?
The ottoman saw this kind of fascinating, multi confessional, multi national, geographically slightly incoherent emp a little bit like the austro hungarian empire. And they just proved that they weren't up to the challenge of nationalism, that there wasn't a kind of a strong enough identity. Was there ever a world in which the ottomans could have survived? Well, it's also a matter of chance, too, because so these revolutionaries came to power in 19 o eight, and they promised equality amongst all the subject peoples of the empire. But there was a counter revolution the next year, and this led toThese coomakers to be afraid of opposition. Just
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