Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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The new name for Constantinople under the empire | Istanbul | 93%
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The royal title of Ottoman leaders | Sultan | 85%
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The Ghazi leader from which Ottoman comes from | Osman I | 77%
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The year that Constantinople was captured | 1453 | 69%
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This ethnic group of eastern Anatolia was the victim of genocide | Armenians | 67%
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Considered the founder of the Turkish republic | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk | 66%
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In 1829, this country became the first to declare independence from it | Greece | 65%
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Beseiged twice, this city was relieved both times (1529-32) | Vienna | 60%
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The domed church in the above city turned into a mosque | Hagia Sophia | 59%
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The conqueror of Serbia and Hungary | Suleiman the Magnificent | 59%
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This war of the 1850s against Russia helped to drive up Ottoman debt | Crimean War | 57%
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Elite infantry units that formed the sultan's personal guard | Janissaries | 50%
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This British officer helped the rebel Arabs to capture much of the Hejaz | T. E. Lawrence | 50%
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The first large capital of the Ottoman state | Bursa | 47%
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In WW1, this Thracian peninsula was the gravesite of many an ANZAC soldier | Gallipoli | 47%
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The last sultan of the empire | Mehmed IV | 47%
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In 1908, this revolution restored the Ottoman Constitution | Young Turk | 36%
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The famous poet who went to the above country to fight | Lord Byron | 33%
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In 1571, this naval battle off Greece set back the Ottoman navy | Lepanto | 28%
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A movement of modernization that lasted through most of the 1800s | Tanzimat | 27%
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His large victory here enabled the conquest of Hungary | Mohacs | 22%
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Murad II slaughtered Hungary and Poland here | Varna | 21%
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This Polish king defeated Kara Pasha at Vienna | Jan Sobieski | 20%
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An alliance that Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro formed against the empire | Balkan League | 17%
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The name for Ottoman land subdivisions or provinces | Eyalets | 12%
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Another British officer, he captured Jerusalem just in time for Christmas | Edmund Allenby | 11%
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The class of well-educated Muslim legal scholars | Ulama | 11%
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One of the empire's worst defeats here cost them Bosnia in 1697 | Zenta | 6%
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In 1771, the Ottoman navy was crushed here, resulting in withdrawl from the Black Sea | Chesma | 2%
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The last large crusade of the Medieval Era was defeated here | Nicolopis | 2%
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