The Ottoman Empire Vocabulary Flashcards
Ottoman Empire
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.
Janissaries
A member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan’s guard between the 14th and 19th centuries.
Sultan
A Muslim sovereign.
Sultanate
A feminine form of sultan, used by Westerners, is sultana or sultanah.
Harem
(in former times) The separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants.
Aurangzeb
“honouring the throne” in Persian, This was the name of a 17th-century Mughal emperor of India.
Shah
A title of the former monarch of Iran.
Maratha Kingdom
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.
Timur the Lame
A Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.
Mehmed the Conqueror
An Ottoman sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.
Emperor Akbar
Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death, He was the third and one of the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India.
Nur Jahan
The twentieth but most beloved, and therefore most important consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
Delhi
A massive metropolitan area in the country’s north.
Sufism
The mystical system of the Sufis.
Sikishim
A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.
Taj Mahal
An ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.
Safavid
A member of a dynasty that ruled Persia 1502–1736 and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.
Ismail Abbas
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.
Sufis
A Muslim ascetic and mystic.
Suleyman
The tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to his death in 1566.
Esmail
An Arabic given name, it corresponds to the English name Ishmael.
Safidon
A city and a municipal committee in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana.
Kizilbash
The label given to a wide variety of Shi’i militant groups that flourished in Azerbaijan and Anatolia from the late 15th century onwards, some of which contributed to the foundation of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.
Rajputs
A member of a Hindu military caste claiming Kshatriya descent.
Sikh Faith
A monotheistic religion originated in the Punjab region of the Indian Subcontinent during the 15th century.
