A Short History of the Ottoman Empire
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's Going on With Anatolia?
During this time, anatolia, as you say, is the big peninsula that we would now associate with turkey. That was the tilt yard, right? Is it incredibly wealthy? What's going on with anatolia? Why it's so important in this entire region)? It's notjust Anatolia by itself. It's connecting streams of people, ideas, technologies from east to west. And the land of alentois a bridge for that. So it's linking europe. It's linking asia and the city of constantinople. The ottomans are, from the beginning, their european power and an asian power. And it's just natural that they
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