1. 1250
•The Trojan War was fought between the armies of the Troy
(in Turkey) and Achaea (Greece).
1288
•Foundation of the Ottoman state by a warrior
chieftain named Osman, at Sogut near Bursa
•The Ottoman Empire was Islamic in religion.
1453
•Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks.
•All surrounding territory was in Ottoman hands now because of
the final conquest of the Byzantines.
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