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"The Ottoman Empire: Five Hundred Years of Peace (Kodansha·Rise and Fall of World History 05)" A small nomadic country in the early 14th century suddenly became a large empire encompassing the Balkans, the Arab world and North Africa. In 1453, it captured Constantinople and destroyed the Byzantine Empire that had existed for thousands of years. In 1529, it marched under the walls of Vienna, shocking the Habsburg family and the entire Europe. Relying on the bureaucratic rule system, the Ottoman Empire maintained peace within its vast territory for 500 years and developed a colorful Ottoman culture. However, with the advent of the national era, the Ottoman system collapsed in the early 19th century. This book starts from the situation in Antolia in 1050 until the sultanate was abolished in 1922, and narrates the thousands of years of historical changes in the Asia Minor Peninsula. The Ottoman Empire was not just an Islamic country, but "the world", the inheritor of the Byzantine Empire, as well as the cultural traditions of the Balkans, Anatolia and Arabia.