Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Osman I (Othman):
The Golden Age of the Ottomans
Tamerlane ( ) or Timur, the Lame
Mehmet I:
The Ottoman Bureaucracy SULTAN Divans Social / Military Divans Heads of Individual Religious Millets Local Administrators & Military Landowners / Tax Collectors MuslimsJews Christians
Mehmet II: ; (The Conqueror)
The Ottoman Capital -- Constantinople
Golden Horn – 15c map
Golden Horn from space
Golden Horn
Sunset on the Golden Horn
The Fall of Constantinople: 1453
Europeans vs. Turks
The End of the Byzantine Empire
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia - interior
Siege of Constantinople, 1453
Selim I, the Grim:
Faith Mosque
Suleiman the Magnificent: ( ) Suleimans Signature
Quran Page: Arabic Calligraphy
Calligraphy
Blue Mosque
Blue Mosque - interior
Prayer Rug, 16c Ottoman Empire
Illuminated Quran Page
Quran Page: Abrahams Sacrifice of Isaac
Quran Page: The Angel Gabriel Visits Muhammad
Collection of Taxes in Suleimans Court
Conversations Between Muslims & Christians
Scholars at the Galata Observatory (Suleimans Constantinople), 1557
Janissaries
Battle of Lepanto (1571)
The Ottoman Empire During the 16 c