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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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18 Jan 2005 10:33:15 AM |
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Ottoman |
Full of eastern promise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1392855,00.html
The Ottoman empire was one of the mightiest the world has ever known.
Can the Royal Academy's new exhibition do it justice? Jonathan Jones
reports
Tuesday January 18, 2005
The Guardian
Five hundred years ago Turkey stood poised to crush Europe on behalf of
Islam. Even before Sultan Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453, the
Ottoman rulers had established themselves as the world's leading
Islamic power. They seized Egypt and Syria, pushed into Hungary and
Transylvania, and to the gates of Vienna. Mehmed's descendant Suleyman
the Magnificent drove the Christian warrior Knights of St John out of
Rhodes and then, in 1565, chased these last Crusaders to Malta. From
the far side of Europe, Elizabeth I declared that in the siege of Malta
the survival of Christian Europe was at stake.
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