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Qing Gets Chinese Card, Ottomans Still Waiting By The Phone

The Qing controlled the former Ming territories, while the Ottomans controlled the former Byzantine territories. The Qing emperors proclaimed the Mandate of Heaven, while the Ottoman sultans were the “Caesar of Rome”. Why is it that the Ottoman Empire is considered Turkish (not…

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