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334 BC |
Alexander the Great of Macedon marches through Anatolia on his way to India |
129 BC |
Anatolia becomes the Roman Province of Asia ('Asia Minor') |
330 AD |
Emperor Constantine the Great dedicates Constantinople as the 'New Rome |
527 |
527-565 Reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian |
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1000s-1200s - Crusader armies cross Anatolia |
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 |
1520-1566 Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire with the reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent |
1683 |
1683-1697 Austro-Ottoman war in which the Ottoman side was defeated signifying the decline of the Ottoman Empire |
1682 |
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 |
1914-1918 Turkey allies with Germany in the World War 1 |
1939 |
1939-1945 Turkey remains neutral during World War 2 |
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