One of the first acts of the Ottomans after their takeover was to transfer the administrative center of the region from its millenary seat in Milas to the then much smaller Muğla, which was nevertheless better suited for controlling the southern fringes of the province.

Though Allenby's deceptions did not induce Liman to concentrate his forces against the River Jordan flank, Allenby was nevertheless able to concentrate a force superior to the Ottoman XXII Corps by nearly five to one in infantry and even more in artillery on the Mediterranean flank, where the main attack was to be made, undetected by the Ottomans.

The conspirators, who hoped to gain foreign aid in their attempts, entered into secret negotiations with a number of nations — including France, Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Republic of Venice, even the Ottomans ; nevertheless, no state wanted to intervene – in fact, the High Porte informed Leopold of the conspiracy in 1666.

A school, al-Harbyeh, had been built on the site by the Ottomans, and the Shihab-Eddin shrine, along with several shops owned by the waqf, were located there.

** The Anadoluhisarı fortress is built by the Ottomans to defend themselves during the siege.

* The Ulu Camii mosque is built in Bursa by the Ottomans.

First the Ottomans attacked the newly built fort of St. Elmo and after a whole month of fighting the fort was in rubble and the soldiers kept fighting until the Turks ended their lives.

Adjacent to the Dome of the Rock, the Ottomans built the free-standing Dome of the Prophet in 1620.

Southern lines were also built by the warring states — from the north by the Ottomans, and from Rafah in the west by the British.

The Selimiye Mosque in the city of Edirne, Turkey, was the first structure built by the Ottomans which had a larger dome than that of the Hagia Sophia.

The Ottomans built a large fortress in Podgorica and the existing settlement, with its highly developed merchant connections, became the main Ottoman defensive and attacking bastion in the region.

For example, he built very strong ties with Prince Sheikh Rashed Al-Khuzai from Al Fraihat tribe, one of the most influential and royal roots family during the Ottomans Empire.

The Ottomans built a powerful navy, rivaling the Italian city-state of Venice during the Ottoman-Venetian Wars ( 1499-1503 ).

The castle and military barracks in Ta ' if were repaired by the Ottomans in 1843, a Hükümet Konağı – mansion for government business – was built in 1869, and a post office was established sometime later.

In 1888, the Ottomans built an elementary school for boys.

One of these is the Bajrakli Mosque, built by the Ottomans in the 15th century and located in the center of the city.

She was buried here and later the Ottomans built the present mosque in her honour.

The port of Aqaba quickly regained its importance after the Ottomans built the Hejaz railway, that connects the port to Damascus and Medina.

In early medieval times these buildings fell into disuse, and in the 14th century they were partly overlaid by a massive fortress built on the acropolis by the Knights of St John to defend the island against the Ottomans.

During this renovations many of the historical features built by Ottomans, particularly the support columns, were demolished.

Ancient monuments were destroyed to provide material for a new wall which the Ottomans built around the city in 1778.

A descendant of the Nemanjić house, Andrija, built a church called Andrijevina, which was razed by the Ottomans in 1765.

The French monks had the exonarthex reconstructed, built a wall around the monastery and effected numerous other changes until the Ottomans expelled them and returned the monastery to an Orthodox community in 1458.

File: Renaissance star-shaped fortress in Karlovac, Croatia ( designed in 1774 ). jpg | The city of Karlovac emerged around a star-shaped Renaissance fortress built against the Ottomans.

The Ottomans built mosques, fountains, hammams, and a medrese.

They were built by the Ottomans to control this strategically vital waterway in preparation for their final assault on Constantinople.

To avert invasion by the Ottomans, a new line of walls and a castle were built by Charles V, ( who was also Holy Roman Emperor ), in the first part of the 16th century.

The Ottomans attempted to create peace by dividing Mt Lebanon into a Christian district and a Druze district, but this would merely create geographic powerbases for the warring parties, and it plunged the region back into civil conflict which included not only the sectarian warfare but a Maronite revolt against the Feudal class, which ended in 1858 with the overthrow of the old feudal system of taxes and levies.

From 1570 when the Ottomans took over Nicosia, the old river bed through the walled city was left open and was used as a dumping ground for refuse, where rainwater would rush through clearing it temporarily.

The Ottomans conquered the old Greek-controlled Byzantine empire during the Middle Ages, taking over its territory and its capital, Constantinople, and becoming its effective successor-state.

The Ottomans were traditional allies of the French and were a major trading partner, but the weakening of Ottoman power and the growth of Russia threatened the old system.

When these moves failed due to the ships ' exorbitant costs, the Ottomans acquired two old Brandenburg-class pre-dreadnought battleships, which became Barbaros Hayreddin and Turgut Reis.

The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification which was mentioned around the 12th century and reconstructed by the Ottomans to fortify the city's harbour ; it became a notorious prison and scene of mass executions during the period of Ottoman rule.

Much of the old Croatian territory was either captured by the Ottomans or bordered the new Ottoman domain.

The present White Tower of Thessaloniki | White Tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification which was mentioned around the 12th century and reconstructed by the Ottomans to fortify the city's harbour.

At its heart is the Baščaršija, the old town market sector where the city was founded by the Ottomans in the 15th century.

was historically used for writing Ottoman Turkish, where it is known as tâlik ( not to be confused with a totally different Persian style, also called taʿliq ; to distinguish the two, Ottomans refer to this latter as ta ' liq-i qadim = old ta ' liq ).

From 1570 when the Ottomans took over Nicosia, the old river bed through the walled city was left open and was used as a dumping ground for refuse, where rainwater would rush through clearing it temporarily.

Later, old Slavs founded here their settlement that was named Novi Grad ( Нови Град ), while Ottomans built here a fortress named Fetislam.

The expulsion of Ottomans from the region shook the centuries old power balance.

Although there are no precise data, it can be assumed that the Srebrenik old town and its fortress were built during the Hungarian rule over Bosnia, while some parts, such as a mosque were added by the Ottomans.

Counting on unrests within the Ottoman empire ( Ottoman Interregnum ), in early 1404 Stefan accepted vassalage to the Hungarian king Sigismund, who awarded him with Belgrade, until then in Hungarian possession, so Belgrade became capital of Serbia for the first time in history as all the old capitals of Serbia ( Skopje, Priština, Prilep and Kruševac ) were already taken by the Ottomans.