HST 101 Lecture : 19 - Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500 - 1750.doc
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Expansion and frontiers: osman established the ottoman empire in northwestern anatolia in 1300. He and his successors consolidated control over anatolia, fought christian enemies in greece and in the balkans, captured serbia and the byzantine capital of. Constantinople, and established a general border with iran: egypt and syria were added to the empire in 1516 1517, and the major port cities of algeria and tunis voluntarily joined the ottoman empire in the early sixteenth century. Belgrade (1521) and rhodes (1522) and laid siege to vienna (1529), but withdrew with the onset of winter: the ottoman empire fought with venice for two centuries as it attempted to exert its control over the mediterranean. The ottomans forced the venetians to pay tribute but continued to allow them to trade: muslim merchants in the red sea and indian ocean requested ottoman naval support against the portuguese.
