Turkey History Timeline & Facts

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The Celts and Ancient History
Bronze and Iron Age - The ancient culture of the Celts had settled in many European countries including Austria, Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Western Germany, Northern Spain, Turkey and Hungary.

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Concise Facts about Turkish History
1288 Foundation of the Ottoman Empire by the warrior Osman which eventually rules North Africa, most of Eastern Europe and all of the Middle East

1453 Conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) by Sultan Mehmet II 'the Conqueror'
1520-1566 Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire with the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent
1683-1697 Austro-Ottoman war in which the Ottoman side was defeated signifying the decline of the Ottoman Empire
1682-1725 Peter the Great initiates Russo-Turkish rivalry
1854 Crimean war - Tsar Nicholas I of Russia moved troops into Rumania, then part of the Ottoman Turkish empire. His fleet then destroyed a Turkish flotilla off Sinope in the Black Sea. The Russians were defeated by the British and French with the Ottomans
1909 Abdul Hamid, the last of the Ottoman sultans is deposed
1914-1918 Turkey allies with Germany in the first world war
1939-1945 Turkey remains neutral during World War II

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