HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture 9: Ottoman Empire in the 19th century
10 Dec 2016
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By the late 18th century, the middle east had been dominated for centuries by an islamic state centered on the ancient city of constantinople renamed istanbul. This was the ottoman empire, frontiers in the 1700s stretched from the balkans in. Europe to persia in the east, and across north africa to morocco in the west. Heart of the empire was the anatolian region (current day turkey), but the eastern. Mediterranean sea, egypt and the arabia peninsular were all key parts to the empire. In total, the ottomans governed approximately 40 million people in 1800, which was roughly comparable to the population of russia at that time. Military conflict with europeans, particularly the austrians habsburg empire and the. Russian empires had been common in the previous two centuries, during and after the. Napoleonic wars, the ottoman empire found itself facing unprecedented challenges that led to humiliating defeats and forced adaptations to modernizing forces.
