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Details are elsewhere on this talk page or at Wikipedia:Requests for expansion. Image File history File links 20pxOttomanicon. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish) Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Bursa (1335 - 1365), Edirne (1365-1453), İstanbul (Constantinople) (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40... This article details the rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 14th and 15th centuries, as well as its days of glory in the 16th century. ... Beyazid the Just When Beyazid II was enthroned upon his fathers death, he first had to fight his younger brother Cem, who took Inegöl and Bursa and proclaimed himself Sultan of Anatolia. ... The Battle of Vienna of 1683 was the real point at which the Empire began its decline. ... After centuries of stagnation, the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire was a distict period beginning just after turn of the 19th century. ... // Balkan Wars For more background on this topic, see Balkan wars. ... The Fall of Constantinople was the conquest of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Mehmed II, on Tuesday, May 29, 1453. ... The Russo-Turkish Wars were a series of wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. ... The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that lasted from 1839 to 1876. ... Image File history File links Wiki_letter_w. ...