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The Ottomans captured Constantinople 1453.Ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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Our safe house would be called Pasha, the title of a highranking person in the Ottoman Empire.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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The Underdowns' house has soft red Persian rugs, chairs with matching ottomans, even a radio.† (source)ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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This drove my conservative mother crazy, so Boo and Stewart almost always came to our house, where Mom could relax among the safety and comfort of her ottomans and end tables.† (source)
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And when the Ottoman Empire collapsed in 1924, so, too, did the last Muslim caliphate.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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The Whirling Dervishes of Konya have come to us as refugees from the Ottoman Empire, which has of late been the site of an unspeakable massacre of the Armenian people by the Sultan's army.† (source)
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Next, Minnie (for this, I learned later, was her name) led me into a huge oyster-white living room strewn with voluptuous sofas, portly ottomans and almost sinfully restful-looking chairs.† (source)ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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After the Romans came the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic states, the trade empires of Italian city-states, and the Ottoman Empire, which did not disappear until the twentieth century, when the powerful nations of the European continent contrived to defeat and divide it.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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He reached out to the other great powers—even the Ottomans—and despite their differences, they all agreed that the Atropos must be ended for the common good.† (source)Ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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Through the decline and death of ancient Rome and Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire and the modern states...buried so deep and with such ceremoniousness and such unction and such evil that only a madman centuries later could discover the clues needed to uncover them, and see with horror what had been done.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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The visitors had but time, however, to catch a confused idea of the place—of carved and gilt ottomans and couches; of fans and jars and musical instruments; of golden candlesticks glittering in their own lights; of walls painted in the style of the voluptuous Grecian school, one look at which had made a Pharisee hide his head with holy horror.† (source)ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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The emperor of Turkey [Ottoman Empire] has no right to impose a new tax.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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Some of them threw themselves in half-reclining positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the rest gathered in a group round the fire: all talked in a low but clear tone which seemed habitual to them.† (source)ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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The other Jews, just as talented, who went to bank for the Ottoman Empire, in Turkey or Egypt or wherever, didn't do so well.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion, Queequeg gave me to understand that, in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.† (source)ottomans = people of the Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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At the time I had shipped aboard the Abraham Lincoln, this whole island was in rebellion against its tyrannical rulers, the Ottoman Empire of Turkey.† (source)Ottoman Empire = Turkish Empire (13th century until after World War I)
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