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- n. a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe; created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century and lasted until the end of World War I; although initially small it expanded until it superseded the Byzantine Empire
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“This circumstance and the fact that a part of the Greeks come from the Turkish Empire and the other part from the Kingdom of Greece have given rise to many dissensions and prevented the nomination of a Greek bishop for the”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“And yet, under Nicholas V, severe persecutions befell the Jews of Central Europe, and their fugitives found a friendly refuge almost exclusively in the new Turkish Empire started by Mohammed II, the conqueror of Constantinople in 1453.”
“Roman nation") in the Turkish Empire made the patriarch their acknowledged civil head before the Porte and gave him a diploma”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“There are no cities of the Turkish Empire where (in 1913) Moslems were so little in evidence as in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth.”
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