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On the 29th October 2023, the Republic of Turkey will have celebrated 100 years since it’s founding in the wake of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. 1923 marked the end of over six hundred years of Ottoman imperial rule, which at the pinnacle of it’s power in the mid 16th century, dominated lands across much of the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. Rising from relative obscurity as a minor regional power in Northwestern Anatolia, the Ottoman dynasty would usher in a period of remarkable territorial expansion, coupled with rapid advancements in governmental, social and economic systems that allowed for one of the most diverse and prosperous empires in the world to flourish. But what became of this once mighty and powerful state and how did it shape the modern Turkish nation of today?

This is the history of the Ottoman Empire.