Sentence examples for ottomans from inspiring English sources

We talked about warriors in the past – Ottomans, Vikings and Romans – and how they shaped the world we live in.

When their own empire collapsed, the Arabs spent four centuries under the repressive hand of the Ottomans.

"Philhellenism", an exhibition, tells the story of the material and moral backing that Romantics like the English poet Byron gave Greece during its independence fight against the Ottomans.

Perhaps Mr Mladic didn't intend to annihilate every Bosnian Muslim, including those in Sarajevo; but I don't think the Ottomans ever wanted to kill the Armenians in Armenia.

In 1878 Bosnia came under Austro-Hungarian rule, but with nominal sovereignty staying with the Ottomans.

The design is airy; the layout is chic but simple, with pools of water, fuchsia roses and pink velvet ottomans placed throughout.

Modern Turkey's defining event the defeat of a Greek expeditionary force dispatched with Western backing was also the starting-point of a ruthless reform effort whose declared aims included "fighting religion" and ending the theocratic backwardness of the Ottomans.

IT IS well known that Kurdish tribes took part in the mass slaughter by the Ottomans of around 1m Armenians in 1915.

It favoured Christians over Muslims (without precluding periods of good relations with the Ottomans); Orthodox Christians over Western Christians; and Arab Orthodox Christians over the Greeks.

There are tantalising allusions to both the fascination and the repulsion which animated the later Ottomans' ambivalence towards Europe.

The Crimean war had led to defeat at the hands of Britain, France and the Ottomans.