ottoman

Example Sentences

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“We would like to be civil servants, soldiers, prosecutors…just like we were in Ottoman times.”

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They lived in Ottoman Salonica, a melting-pot of Greeks, Turks, Jews, Albanians and cosmopolitan traders from all over Europe.

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It became a mosque under the Ottoman Empire and a museum under the Republic of Turkey.

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A Jewish homeland in backwaters of the Ottoman empire seemed unattainable, and pressing domestic concerns like slavery and temperance took precedence.

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The nation’s multilayered historical background has been variously stamped by a basic Arabic heritage, ineradicable remnants of protracted Ottoman Turkish rule and the long arm of the British colonial empire.

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