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101Ottoman wars in Europe — Turkish wars and Ottoman wars redirect here. For other uses, see Turkish wars (disambiguation). Military of the Ottoman Empire Army: Sipahi · …
102Young Turks — Turkish Jöntürkler Coalition of young dissidents who ended the sultanate of the Ottoman Empire. Consisting of college students and dissident soldiers, the group succeeded in 1908 in forcing Abdülhamid II to reinstitute the 1876 constitution and… …
103Turkey–United Kingdom relations — Turkish–British relations are foreign relations between the Republic of Turkey and the United Kingdom. Relations between Britain and Turkey go right back to the early 16th century, when the first strong contacts between the two countries… …
104Tanzimat — (Turkish: Reorganization ) (1839–76) Series of reforms undertaken in the Ottoman Empire to modernize society along secular and bureaucratic lines. The first set of reforms (1839) sought to secularize the government s treatment of people and… …
105Candar Dynasty — ▪ Turkish dynasty , also called İsfendiyar, Turkmen dynasty (c. 1290–1461) that ruled in the Kastamonu Sinop region of northern Anatolia (now in Turkey). The dynasty took its name from Şemseddin Yaman Candar, who served in the army …
106Li Keyong — ▪ Turkish Chinese general Wade Giles romanization Li K o yung born 856, Yingxian, Shanxi province, China died 908, Shanxi Tang general of Turkish origin who suppressed the great peasant rebellion of Huang Chao (died 884), which threatened …
107Şevket Paşa, Mahmud — ▪ Turkish statesman Şevket also spelled Shevket born 1858, Baghdad [Iraq] died June 11, 1913, Constantinople [now Istanbul, Tur.] Ottoman soldier and statesman who, in 1909, suppressed a religious uprising, forced the subsequent… …
108Ali Paşa Tepelenë — ▪ Turkish leader byname Lion of Janina born 1744, Tepelenë, Albania, Ottoman Empire died February 5 [Jan. 24, Old Style], 1822, Janina, Ottoman Empire [now Ioánnina, Gr.] Albanian brigand who, by murder and intrigue, became pasha, or… …
109Jelālī Revolts — ▪ Turkish history Jelālī also spelled Celâli, rebellions in Anatolia against the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries. The first revolt occurred in 1519 near Tokat under the leadership of Celâl, a preacher of Shīʿah Islām. Major …
110Germiyan — Turkish emirate (q.v.) established in western Asia Minor (q.v.) amid the ruins of the Seljuk sultanate of Rum (qq.v.). Its center was the former Byzantine city of Kotyaion (Kütahya). For much of the 14th century its power along the Aegean (q.v …
