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Definition of Ottomans

Ottomans
Ottoman Ot"to*man, n.; pl. Ottomans. 1. A Turk. 2. [F. ottomane, from ottoman Turkish.] A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.
Ottoman
Ottoman Ot"to*man, a. [F. ottoman: cf. It. ottomano, ottomanno; -- from Othoman, Othman, or Osman, the name of a sultan who assumed the government of Turkey about the year 1300. Cf. Osmanli, Ottoman a stuffed seat.] Of or pertaining to the Turks; as, the Ottoman power or empire.
Ottoman
Ottoman Ot"to*man, n.; pl. Ottomans. 1. A Turk. 2. [F. ottomane, from ottoman Turkish.] A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.

Meaning of Ottomans from wikipedia

- Look up Ottoman or ottoman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ottoman or Ottomans may refer to: Ottoman Empire 1299–1922 Ottoman dynasty, ruling family...
- transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II, which marked the Ottomans' emergence as a...
- The Young Ottomans (Turkish: Yeni Osmanlılar) were a secret society established in 1865 by a group of Ottoman intellectuals who were dissatisfied with...
- strongly influenced Ottomanism. It promoted equality among the millets. The idea of Ottomanism originated amongst the Young Ottomans (founded in 1865) in...
- the Ottomans' claim to the caliphate. Although the treaty made official the Ottoman Empire's loss of the Crimean Khanate, it acknowledged the Ottoman caliph's...
- Thrace, the locals welcomed the Ottomans who once again began blockading key fortresses in Asia Minor. The Ottomans were able to build on their military...
- to hold strong influence and were sometimes blended with Ottoman styles. The first Ottomans were established in northwest Anatolia near the borders of...
- Empire distracted Christians from their conflict with the Ottomans. Meanwhile, the Ottomans had to contend with the Persian Safavid Empire and to a lesser...
- 1774, when the Ottomans needed to counter the Russians, who announced that they needed to protect Orthodox Christians under the Ottoman Empire, by making...
- by the Ottomans The First Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479), resulting in the capture of Negroponte, Lemnos and Albania Veneta by the Ottomans The Second...