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Gath's Rejseside: Atatürk - Tyrkiets fader
Mustafa Kemal, med tilnavnet Atatürk, var oprindelig general i den osmanske hær. Efter 1. verdenskrigs slutning hvor forskellige magter gik ind i det detroniserede rige forlod Atatürk hæren for at samle en modstandsbevægelse der skulle fordrive besættelsesmagterne. Atatürk fik magten over hæren og franskmændene der var gået ind i Anatolien i den sydøstlige del af landet var de første der stod for tur. Det kom ikke til store - http://gath.private.dk/ataturk.htm

Ottoman
"The Ottoman state rose to become a world empire, which lasted from the late 13th century to 1923. Like that of the Habsburgs, its eventual rival, the Ottoman Empire was dynastic; its territories and character owed little to national, ethnic or religious boundaries, and were determined by the military and administrative power of the dynasty at any particular time. The Ottomans attempted to bring as much territory as possible into the Islamic fold. The non-Muslims living in these areas wer - http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/index.asp

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1 OF 2 Rome and the Byzantine Empire Rome organized its extensive territory under a proconsul as the province of Asia. All of Anatolia (Asia Minor) except Armenia, which was a Roman client-state, was integrated into the imperial system by A.D. 43. After the accession of the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 B.C.-A.D. 14), and for generations thereafter, the Anatolian provinces enjoyed prosperity and security. The cities were administered by local councils and sent delegates to provincial assemblie - http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/empire.asp

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Expansion Map Turkish Origins From prehistoric times a constellation of people had been migrating throughout Central Asia in the area between Pamir and Yenissei, the Volga and the T'ien Shan Mountains. From this loose collection of people sprang communities speaking FinnoUgric, Turkish and Mongolian languages. Later, at the time of Christ's birth and mainly through Chinese sources, the first Prototurkic people in Western and Northwestern China are recorded. They were the ancestors of today's T - http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/turkish.asp

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1 OF 2 Great Seljuks The Turkish migrations after the sixth century were part of a general movement of people out of central Asia during the first millennium A.D. that was influenced by a number of interrelated factorsclimatic changes, the strain of growing populations on a fragile pastoral economy, and pressure from stronger neighbors also on the move. Among those who migrated were the Oguz Turks, who had embraced Islam in the tenth century. They established themselves around Bukhara in Trans - http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/great.asp

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Sultanate of Rum Within ten years of the Battle of Manzikert, the Seljuks had won control of most of Anatolia. Although successful in the west, the Seljuk sultanate in Baghdad reeled under attacks from the Mongols in the east and was unableindeed unwillingto exert its authority directly in Anatolia. The gazis carved out a number of states there, under the nominal suzerainty of Baghdad, states that were continually reinforced by further Turkish immigration. The strongest of these states to emer - http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/sultanate.asp

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1 OF 2 The Crusades The success of the Seljuk Turks stimulated a response from Latin Europe in the form of the First Crusade. A counteroffensive launched in 1097 by the Byzantine emperor with the aid of the first Russian state. Without pausing, the Mongols subdued the principalities of Galicia and Volhynia and broke through to Hungary, Wallachia, Poland and Silesia. Fully aware of the danger, Pope Gregory IX appealed to all Christian people to form an alliance against this "new Attila&quo - http://www.theottomans.org/english/history/crusades.asp