Turkey is a country in Central Asia. Today's Turks are undeputed and at ease living a leisurely life in Central Asia. But not a thousand years ago. The ancestors of Turkey are the Ottomans who shook Eurasia in the past, they can fight good wars, expand their territory everywhere, and establish the Ottoman Empire across the Eurasian land, which is brilliant for a while.
But "there is no feast under the heavens", and even the most glorious empire has a day to end. Ancient China, dominating the East, has been bullied because of backwardness in modern times, so it can be seen that without strong strength as a support, even the vast land is futile. The fall of the Ottoman Empire was the same as in China. Who would have thought that in less than a hundred years, the country would lose more than half of its territory and split the country into 40 small countries?
When it comes to the origins of the Ottoman Empire, it also has a certain relationship with Mongolia in China. At that time, the Mongols continued to conquer the west, with super cavalry and rapid mobile combat plans, invincible, all the way to the west to the Danube River. In the process, the Turks were not able to escape, and in order to avoid mongol infestation, the Turks had to migrate west to the then Sultanate of Roma and seek refuge. What they did not expect was that the Mongols did not take long to come to the Sultanate of Roma, and the country fell apart, and the leaders of Turkey had to lead the people to continue to migrate westward, and finally came to Asia Minor and obtained a safe hiding place. The year was 1299, and they decided to establish a state here, and the leader at that time was called "Ottoman", because it was he who led the people to survive, so they took his name as the name of the country.
After the founding of the country, the country embarked on a path of rapid development, although they could not defeat the Mongols, but it was more than enough to deal with the Europeans. The Ottomans had always been belligerent, and they occupied Asia Minor, so how could they be confined to this region? Soon, they would be wiped out of the fragmented Sultanate of Roma, which had been beaten up by the Mongols, and the rebels would bring it under their own land. Not only that, but the Ottoman leaders had a more ambitious plan, that is, to destroy the Eastern Roman Empire.
To the Ottomans at the time, Constantinople, the thousand-year-old city of Byzantium, was the center of the world and the center of their Islam, but only temporarily occupied by pagan Christianity. Therefore, they must reclaim this religious holy place that belongs to them no matter what. After several generations of efforts, the Ottomans were unable to capture the castle. It was not until 1453 that the young sultan finally conquered the city and renamed it Istanbul, the current capital of Turkey.
After that, he marched all the way to attack Eastern Rome and destroy it. But the Pace of the Ottomans did not stop, and after the defeat of Eastern Rome, they launched a religious war, attacking numerous Christian countries, causing panic among Europeans. After all, Christianity is a bishop in Europe, and at its peak, in the whole of Eurasia, except for China, there is probably no country that can be opposed to it.
Of course, the heyday of nature can not always exist, and the later Ottoman Empire also went downhill. The first is that the speed of development is too fast, which leads to the self-righteousness of some aristocrats and bureaucrats, and they begin to become unenterprising. The second is that the land area is really too large, and the people who manage it are not only numerous, but also have different temperaments, different cultures, and different living habits. This problem could not be effectively solved by successive Ottoman sultans, which also laid the groundwork for the subsequent disintegration of the Ottomans.
In 1683, the Ottoman foreign war was defeated, and the unequal Treaty of Kalovitz was signed, and the military power was greatly reduced. In addition, after the Industrial Revolution, which European countries have completely ignored the Ottomans, and even sent troops to attack the Ottomans, the situation has been completely reversed.
External troubles and civil strife also emerged, and the problem of management that we talked about earlier was vividly expressed in the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Many of the peoples of the country launched independence movements to break away from the Ottomans, and a large number of new small countries emerged, but with the Ottoman national strength at that time, it was completely impossible to suppress their independence movements. The survival of this great empire is unsustainable.
After the end of World War I, the Ottomans became one of the defeated countries and were left to be slaughtered by the victorious countries. In this way, the once glorious Ottoman Empire split into many countries, reaching a staggering 40. Turkey, the main ethnic group among them, has established its own Turkish state.