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The Ottomans were superior in number, but on October 10, 1394 ( or 17 May 1395 ), in the Battle of Rovine, on forested and swampy terrain, the Wallachians won the fierce battle and prevented Bayezid from conquering the country.
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But Bulgaria now had no claims against the Ottomans, whereas Serbia, Greece and Romania ( allies of Britain and France ) were all in possession of lands perceived in Bulgaria as its own.
The war was already unpopular among Bulgarians themselves, as they were allied with the Muslim Ottomans against their Orthodox Christian neighbours.
The Ottomans, with whom Bonaparte had hoped to conduct an alliance once his control of Egypt was complete, were encouraged by the Battle of the Nile to go to war with France.
The first group of Ottomans who entered the city were killed almost immediately, with the effect that the other Muslims began to retreat.
The Joudeh Al-Goudia family were entrusted as custodian to the keys of the Holy Sepulchre by the Ottomans few hundred years later, and both families now share the responsibility.
Later, under the Ottoman Turks, they were severely attacked at Ayn-Ṣawfar in 1585 after the Ottomans claimed that they assaulted their caravans near Tripoli.
Consequently, the 16th and 17th centuries were to witness a succession of armed Druze rebellions against the Ottomans, countered by repeated Ottoman punitive expeditions against the Chouf, in which the Druze population of the area was severely depleted and many villages destroyed.
However, not long after, Yeshaq revolted once again with Ottoman support but was defeated once and for all in 1578, leaving the Ottomans with domain over Massawa, Arqiqo and some of the nearby coastal environs, which were soon transferred to the control of Beja Na ' ibs ( deputies ).
The Ottomans set up defensive fortifications along the peninsula and the attackers were eventually repulsed.
Most of the arriving armies were left on the beaches, which allowed the Ottomans to pour in reinforcements.
The subsequent empires of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, Ajuuraan, Adal, Warsangali in Somalia, Ghaznavids, Seljuqs, Safavids, Mughals, and Ottomans were among the influential and distinguished powers in the world.
First the Ottomans won at 1371 on the Maritsa River — where the Serb forces were led by the King Vukasin Mrnjavcevic, the father of Prince Marko and the co-ruler of the last emperor from the Serbian Nemanjic dynasty.
The Ionian Islands were only briefly ruled by the Ottomans ( Kefalonia from 1479 to 1481 and from 1485 to 1500 ), and remained primarily under the rule of Venice.
Here the Greeks were in competition not only with the Ottomans but also with the Bulgarians, engaged in an armed propaganda struggle for the hearts and minds of the ethnically mixed local population, the so-called " Macedonian Struggle ".
The Ottomans scuttled the four ships present there, but the Greeks were able to salvage the Italian-built torpedo-boats Antalya and Tokat, which were commissioned into the Greek Navy as Nikopolis and Tatoi respectively.
A new strategy was agreed, whereby the Ottomans were to take advantage of any absence of Averof to attack the other Greek ships.
Under fire from two sides, the Ottomans were quickly forced to withdraw to the Dardanelles.
Its exploits during its eight-month cruise through the Mediterranean were a major morale booster for the Ottomans.
The Ottomans were bankrupt and when the European banks took control of the Ottoman budget in 1881, additional income was required from Kuwait and the Arabian peninsula.
After the Ottomans regained control, European money continued to flow into Nazareth and new institutions were established.
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 Ottoman naval recovery persuaded Venice to sign a peace treaty in 1573, and the Ottomans were able to expand and consolidate their position in North Africa.
The Byzantines still controlled the coastal strip from Sile on the Black Sea to Uskudar and the city of Amasra ( Amastris ) in Paphlagonia, but these were so scattered and isolated as to be no threat to the Ottomans.
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The Christian army was attacked by a superior force of 55, 000 or 60, 000 Ottomans led by sultan Murad II.
The Serbs then launched several attacks against the Niš Fortress, but each time they were repulsed by the numerically superior Ottomans.
The position was strongly held by greatly superior numbers of Germans, Austrians and Ottomans, supported by well-placed artillery, but the garrison was seen burning stores and evacuating camps.
One clear advantage for the Ottomans was its superior numbers, the Ottoman army was three times the size of its Russian counterpart.
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.
After battling bad weather, he sighted the Ottoman ships on 27 May at the entrance to the gulf and despite the superior numbers of the Ottomans ( about 10 battleships and some smaller vessels vs 3 battleships, 2 frigates and 4 armed merchantmen ) he sailed up before a light SSE breeze to attack.
On 30 May, the Ottomans began to move, and some Russian captains insisted that they were not bound to attack such a superior fleet.
The Ottomans proved they were good at holding defensive positions against superior forces.
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Upon the Ottomans ' return in 1478, a large number of Albanians fled to Italy, Greece and Egypt and maintained their Arbëresh identity.
By the late 18th century, a number of defeats in several wars with Russia led some people in the Ottoman Empire to conclude that the reforms of " Deli Petro " ( Peter the Mad, as Peter the Great was known in Turkey ) had given the Russians an edge, and the Ottomans would have to keep up with Western technology in order to avoid further defeats.
Within this sandžak ( and eventual vilayet ) of Bosnia, the Ottomans introduced a number of key changes in the territory's socio-political administration ; including a new landholding system, a reorganization of administrative units, and a complex system of social differentiation by class and religious affiliation.
In the aftermath, the Ottomans had removed a significant opposition to their expansion into central and eastern Europe ; subsequent battles forced a large number of Europeans to become Ottoman subjects.
Administratively, the Ottomans divided the Albanian-inhabited lands among a number of districts, or vilayets.
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The Ottomans in particular became prolific patrons of baths, building a number of ambitious structures, particular in Constantinople after it became their capital in 1453.
The Ottomans had 4 battalions of regular army ( nizami ) with a total of 1800 soldiers, situated in Mostar, Trebinje, Nikšić, Foča and the border posts, also a larger number of başıbozuk are present all over the province.
From 6 to 9 August, the Ottomans and Germans fought a number of strong rearguard actions against the advancing Australian, British and New Zealand light horse, yeomanry and mounted rifle brigades.
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In 1603, the English historian Richard Knolles described the Ottomans as " the present terror of the world " and by the mid-19th century, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia described it as " the sick man of Europe ", a term by which it was to become stigmatised despite the same term being used for a number of European states ( including Italy and Scotland ).
The Ottomans felt the need for a strong navy and merchant marine, and instituted a number of reforms.
But there were a number of barriers to this trade: the Ottomans controlled the navigation regime on the Danube, while the Russian Empire – the access to the Black Sea in the Danube Delta, and there was little the Danubian Principalities could do to rectify this situation.
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