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The Medieval Period of the Ottoman Empire
How the early Ottoman state grew from a small Anatolian frontier band into a Balkan power by 1453, and why the empire itself outlasted the Middle Ages.
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Ottomans and Iberia
The early Ottomans, the fall of Constantinople and the Reconquista.
The Medieval Period of the Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople
The 1453 Ottoman capture of Constantinople: the siege, why the walls finally fell, and what the conquest changed for the city and the wider region.
The Medieval Period of the Reconquista
The centuries-long contest between Christian and Muslim rulers for Iberia, from 711 to 1492, and why many historians doubt it was one unified movement.
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: A New Power in Medieval Europe
How the Ottomans began as a frontier principality in northwest Anatolia around 1300, and how they first crossed into the Balkans in the fourteenth century.
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