132690718 | beys | provincial governors in the Ottoman Empire | 0 | |
132690719 | sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 1 | |
132690720 | Golden Horn | nickname for Constantinople (capital of Byzantine empire) because it was shaped like a horn and brought in lots of trade (money, gold) because of its access to the Mediterranean, Black, and Aegean seas | 2 | |
132690721 | Bosporus and Dardanelles | a narrow strait linking the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara;, the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey | 3 | |
132690722 | Yen cheri/ Janissaries | Turks called to describe the Otomman Infantry force meaning "new soldiers.";, Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826. See also devshirme. (p. 526, 675) | 4 | |
132690723 | Battle of Kosovo and Murad | It was between the Muslim Ottoman Turks and Christian Serb armies. Serbs lost. In 1990's serb nationalists used the loss to stir up anger against current day Muslim Bosnian Serbs and to promote larger ethnically serbian nation;, defeated Serbs in Battle of Kosovo, established capital at Edirne, began Janisseries | 5 | |
132690724 | Serbs and Bulgars | An ethnic group that dominates in Bosnia, Kosovo, and other regions of the former Yugoslavia., People of Bulgaria, was in a innovative relationship with Byzantine in the early years of the Bulgar's existence as a state. | 6 |
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