the ottoman empire

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ottoman empire

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The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman.

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janisarries

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The Janissaries were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan’s household troops and bodyguards. The corps was most likely established during the reign of Murad I

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sultan

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a Muslim sovereign.

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sultanate

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Sultan is a noble title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning “strength”, “authority”, “rulership”, derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning “authority” or “power”.

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harem

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(in former times) the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants.

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shah

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a title of the former monarch of Iran.

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Maratha kingdom

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The Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy was an Indian power that existed from 1674 to 1818 and ruled over much of the Indian sub-continent.

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Timur the lame

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Timur (Persian: تیمور‎‎ Timūr, Chagatai: Temür, Uzbek: Temur; 9 April 1336— 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane (Persian: تيمور لنگ‎‎ Timūr(-e) Lang, “Timur the Lame”), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.

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Mehmet the conqueror

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Mehmed II, also known as The Conqueror is one of the famous sultans of Ottoman Empire with his intelligence. Mehmed II ruled the Ottoman for a brief time, from 1444 to 1446, after his father. After that time Sultan Murad II renounced the throne but when he died Mehmed II ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1451 to 1481.

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Emperor Ahkbar

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Akbar. Known as “the Great.” 1542–1605. Mughal emperor of India (1556–1605) who conquered most of northern India and exercised religious tolerance.

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Nur Jahan

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Nur Jahan (Persian: نور جهان‎‎; Urdu: نور جهاں‎; Pashto: نور جہاں‎) (alternative spelling: Noor Jahan, Nur Jehan) (31 May 1577 – 17 December 1645) born Mehr-un-Nissa, was the twentieth but most beloved, and therefore most important consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

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Delhi

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a city in and the capital of this territory: former capital of the old Mogul Empire; administrative headquarters of British India 1912–29.

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Sufism

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the mystical system of the Sufis.

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Sikishm

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a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.

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Taj Mahal

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a white marble mausoleum built at Agra, India, by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (fl. 1628–58) for his favorite wife

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Safavid

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The Safavid Empire, based in Persia (Iran), ruled over much of southwestern Asia from 1501 to 1736. Members of the Safavid Dynasty likely were of Kurdish Persian descent, and belonged to a unique order of Sufi-infused Shi’a Islam called Safaviyya.

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Ismail abbas

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Ali Abbas (born 1991) is an Iraqi man who drew a lot of media attention after being severely injured in a night-time aerial missile attack near Baghdad during the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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sufis

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a Muslim ascetic and mystic.

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suleiman

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sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1520–66; also known as Suleiman the Magnificent or Suleiman the Lawgiver. The Ottoman Empire reached its fullest extent under his rule.

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Esmail

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an Arabic given name. It corresponds to the English name Ishmael.

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Safidon

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Safidon is a city and a municipal committee in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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kizilbash

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Persianized Turk of a class devoted to business and professional pursuits in Afghanistan; also : a member of a community of Turkish or mixed-race colonists in Asia Minor. 2 : a community of Kurdish Turks in eastern Turkey who are Christians and whose women refuse to veil their faces.

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Rajputs

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member of a Hindu military caste claiming Kshatriya descent.

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Sikh Faith

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The Khalsa (Punjabi: ਖ਼ਾਲਸਾ; [xaːlsaː]) is the collective body of all initiated Sikhs represented by the five beloved-ones and can be called the Guru Panth, the embodiment of the Guru and the final temporal Guru/leader of the Sikhs. The word Khalsa translates to “Sovereign/Free”.