Ottoman Empire
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5.2
- proper noun
- /ˈɑːtəmən ˈɛmpaɪər/
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Imperio otomano
- This was the Ottoman Empire, one of the largest empires the world has ever known, and presently it's being carved up.
- collapse of the Ottoman Empire
- dissolution of the Ottoman Empire
- defeat of the Ottoman Empire
Or more succinctly, who gets what part of the Ottoman Empire's carcass?
- Or more succinctly, who gets what part of the Ottoman Empire's carcass?
- There were Jews in the area of Palestine under the Brits and under the Ottoman Empire for sure.
- What this means for Europe is that the Ottoman Empire now controls the standard trade routes to Asia.
- This week, the British and Indian Army at Kut surrenders to the Ottoman Empire.
- But the region, of course, is no stranger to invading powers with the Ottoman Empire, the Roman Empire, more recently the British Empire.
- He spends a lot of time in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey.
- OK, So let me briefly now to try to do the Ottoman Empire from our point of view.
- I was just, my son was telling me about the Ottoman Empire, right?
- I'm in college and I read about some battle that the Ottoman Empire loss and I'm like, that can't be right.
- So I would say after the, I mean not to go back too much in history, but after Turkey or Ottoman Empire lost World War One, there were two.
Examples
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At its height, the Ottoman Empire was a vast territory that included parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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And then the Ottoman Empire, which collapsed after the First World War.
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Life for Christians under the Ottoman Empire was complex.
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Ambassador, what part of the Ottoman Empire did Australia get?
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When was the Ottoman Empire established and how did it collapse?
Academic text (2011) -
In 1916, the West divided a once great Ottoman Empire.
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One of them was the Ottoman Empire's integration with the European state system.
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At the zenith of its power, the Ottoman Empire extended into southern Russia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus.
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The Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923 after World War I, when the powerful, six-century-old Ottoman Empire collapsed.
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Palestine was one of the poorest, most backward, and most ramshackle provinces of the Ottoman Empire.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
A large state the Ottomans ruled from the late 1200s to World War I
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Ottoman' (relating to the Ottoman people/culture) + 'empire' (a state ruling many territories) yields an empire belonging to or ruled by the Ottomans. This possessive/attributive pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Imperio otomano, Empire ottoman), so a learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The name Ottoman Empire comes from the founder, a Turkish leader called Osman. People who followed him were called 'Ottomans', so the large state they built was called the Ottoman Empire, meaning the empire of Osman.