"The Ottoman Empire successfully modernized and reasserted itself on the world stage. A new era begins."
"The Ottomans...allowed the Jews...the Muslims had their own courts, the Jews had their Beth Din, and the Christians had their priests to govern."
"What started as a story of love between arguably the most powerful and influential Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his legal wife Hurrem led to more than 100 years of women’s domination in the Ottoman Empire."
"Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks...the Ottoman dynasty certainly has a good claim on being the true successors of the original Roman Empire."
"The end of the First World War in no way brought the turmoil which had wracked the Ottoman Empire for years to an end."
"The Ottoman Empire was among the longest lived empires in history."
"The alliance between the corsairs and the Sublime Porte was fruitful for both sides."
"For the first time in history, the Ottoman fleet would extend its operations to French and Spanish waters."
"However, the Rum Millet of the Ottoman Empire, and the appeals of the Russians Czars as protectors of Orthodoxy in the Early Modern Period, can be seen as descendants of the bonds of the Byzantine Commonwealth."
"If we don't reassert Ottoman sovereignty and reclaim our place amongst the powers of the world, we'll risk catastrophe."
"We have avenged the 17th century, the heyday, the swan song of the Ottoman Empire."
"The defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 turned out to be a hollow victory for the West."
"Harem aroused similar hostility among the Ottoman elite, though the extent of her power has been disputed, she was obviously a very powerful woman."
"Nurbanu is the first woman who acquired the title of valid sultan, queen mother, empress dowager."
"What people also don't realize is that the Sykes-Picot agreement was alighted upon in 1916 while the whole of the Middle East effectively was still a part of the Ottoman Empire."
"By May 19th Ottoman siege trenches had fully encircled the city."
"Cyprus was now under Ottoman control but that was hardly the end of the war."
"It seems that this is gonna be the end of the road for the Ottoman Empire."
"The Ottoman Empire was known as the sick man for good reason."
"The Ottoman Empire, probably the strongest Islamic empire of its period."
"Suleiman gazed at it with awe and exclaimed, 'Oh Solomon, I have surpassed thee.'"
"Suleiman's failure to take Vienna was pivotal for Europe."
"The Battle of Jerusalem marked the beginning of the end for the Ottomans in the Middle East."
"It's instructive to know that the British had about a hundred million Muslims living within their domains at the time, the Ottomans had 20 million."
"The Ottoman Empire led by Sultan Mehmed II was on the rise and the Sultan saw an opportunity to expand his empire and gain control of the strategic city of Constantinople."
"Under Suleiman the Magnificent's leadership, the Ottoman Empire became one of the most powerful and influential empires in world history."
"Flaming camels... the sight of these flaming camels charging towards the Ottoman forces panicked their formidable war elephants and horses."
"By the start of 1411, Musa entered Edirne thus, only two claimants for the Ottoman throne were left."
"With the submission of the most formidable state in the Balkans, the Ottoman state was now able to expand its domains throughout the local region and beyond freely."
"The rolling thunder of the Ottoman power re-echoed around the world, paling the glories of Persia and Mogul India."
"The 'Auspicious Incident' marked the end of the Janissaries, paving the way for Ottoman modernization along European lines."
"The Ottomans, the longest empire in the Muslim world."
"Many of them were excited to see their fellow enlightened monarch topple the decadent Ottoman empire and establish a haven for classical culture in its place."
"The Ottomans began to conduct business like the Europeans."
"The Ottomans emulated the Europeans to some degree."
"The Ottoman Empire wasn't only Islamic; it had many religions within it as well, which is interesting."
"The Ottomans were not only fighting the Romans, that was fine. None of the Muslim states in Anatolia had a problem with that because the Ottomans were doing the job of Islam."
"The weakest link in Ottoman civilization was its poor equipment for the acquisition and transmission of knowledge."
"One could go as far as saying that the best reason in explaining the rise of the Ottomans was their own competence."
"Instead what happened was the Ottoman ruler was able to centralize more and more power into his own hands."
"In my opinion, the Ottomans' centralizing instincts and their frontier mentality combined to make them the energetic and dynamic force that they became."
"The Ottomans under Mehmed II formalized the right of a sitting Sultan to remove any Şehzade."
"The law of governance established by Mehmed II ensured the dynasty's long reign."
"...while Turkish Muslims don't like to hear it it is the truth the Ottoman Empire acted unjustly in oppressing Eastern Orthodox Christians..."
"The Ottomans spread out across the Indian Ocean, creating new trading posts."
"The Ottoman Empire and the world around it is just a book of essays about features of the Ottoman Empire."
"Whenever you see a tree like this in Istanbul or in Turkey independently standing there doing absolutely nothing, understand that something significant has happened in Ottoman history."
"By the spring of 1917, Ottoman authority in Palestine had almost totally collapsed."
"The Ottomans used the devshirme system to help run their empire."
"The Ottoman Empire went from broken to broken beyond repair during the Victorian era."
"The Turkish Armada was sighted by the watchmen on the walls of St. Elmo."
"...the Ottoman Empire in 1683 was not only a great power, it was probably the greatest land power in Europe and the greatest naval power in the Mediterranean."
"Nevertheless, the empire, despite the disasters of the early Great Turkish War, had recovered politically and economically."
"The re-conquest of the Peloponnese and the failure of Peter's put campaign had demonstrated that the Ottoman Empire was still a formidable power capable of independent action."
"The era of peace and restoration would continue for the Ottomans for the next half a century with a few notable exceptions."
"The last real Roman Emperor, Constantine XI, was gone, his army destroyed, and the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Constantinople."
"As the military power of the Ottoman Empire waned, the Port increasingly came to rely on a clique of effective negotiators to represent the empire's interests."
"The endurance of the Ottoman Empire as a great power was self-evident."
"In Ottoman times, of course, there were no borders; it was like a huge common market, and everybody traded with everybody else."
"Absolutely legendary, I think it's safe to say that the Ottomans cannot maintain these losses."
"Altogether, out of some 240,000 refugees, 150,000 were resettled in the rapidly-expanding Ottoman Empire."
"1453 is a must-know AP date; it is the year that the Byzantine capital of Constantinople falls to the Ottomans."
"...the Battle of Vienna... marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe."
"The city fell to Mehmed the Conqueror on the 29th of May 1453."
"His reign marked a significant period of cultural and scholarly flourishing in the Ottoman Empire."
"Barbarossa... eventually became Grand admiral of the Ottoman Empire."
"Islamic societies like the Ottoman Empire were much more tolerant than Christian societies ever were."
"The Ottoman Empire had previously been the most powerful and dominant power in southeastern Europe for hundreds of years."
"The Order of the Dragon was aimed at directly limiting the influence of the Ottoman Empire."
"The baklava that we know goes back to the Ottoman period just after the conquest of Istanbul."
"He thought very highly of the Ottoman soldiers and really did his best to help them."
"The influence of the Ottoman Empire cannot be overstressed."
"They had arrived at the conclusion that remaining in the Ottoman Empire was becoming hopeless."