By the 19 th Century, the Empire had started to come apart. Historical scholars of the Ottomans maintain that the Empire was in irreversible decline for almost 200 years prior to its eventual dissolution (beginning roughly in the 17 th Century, when European alliances permanently reconquered Eastern European and Balkan territories and Russian expansion gobbled up their northern territories). Until the Ottoman Empire’s ultimate collapse in the aftermath of World War I, it spent six centuries as the center of interaction between the Eastern and Western Worlds. The Sakarya River is the third longest river in Turkey, and runs through the region that was classically referred to as Phrygia (west central Anatolia), and it’s Medieval residents were the Söğüt tribe, which went on to establish the Ottoman Empire in 1299 A.D., which at the greatest extent of its territorial domination ruled from Budapest, Hungary in the north, to Zeila, Somalia in the south, and from Algiers in the west to the Caspian Sea port of Baku in the east. I just came to your dimension for the choice waves… “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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