Names of the Ottoman Empire

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The state of the Ottomans which began as part of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate and became an independent Empire, has been known historically by different names at different periods and in various languages. This page surveys the history of these names and their usage.

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[edit] Beylik phase

[edit] State phase, 1299

The first declaration of statehood happened under Osman I.

  • Āl-e Uṯmān (Arabic: آل عثمان‎; also transliterated as Âl-i Othman)

[edit] Empire phase, 1453

  • Medieval Latin: Turchia or Imperium Turcicum (Turkey or the empire of the Turks)[1]
  • English: Ottoman Empire, Osmanic Empire, Osmanian Empire, Turkey, Turkish Empire
  • Ottoman Turkish: دولت عليه عثمانيه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye (The Sublime Ottoman State)[2]
  • Ottoman Turkish: Devlet-i Âliye (The Sublime State)
  • Ottoman Turkish: Devlet-i Ebed-Müddet (The Eternal State)
  • Ottoman Turkish: Memâlik-i Mahrûse (The Well-Protected Domains)
  • Ottoman Turkish: Memâlik-i Mahrûse-i Osmanî (The Well-Protected Domains of the Ottomans)
  • Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu (Ottoman Empire), Osmanlı Devleti (Ottoman State)
  • Arabic: الدولةُ العليةُ العثمانيةُ Ad-Dawlat al-ʿAliya al-ʿUṯmāniyya (The Sublime Ottoman State) or الدولةُ العليةُ العثمانيةُ Ad-Dawla Al-ʿUṯmāniyya
  • Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Османско царство (Osmansko Carstvo) / Отоманско царство (Otomansko Carstvo)
  • Bulgarian: Османска империя (Osmanska Imperia)
  • Greek: Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία (Othomanikí Aftokratoría), Τουρκιά (Tourkiâ)
  • Georgian: ოსმალეთის იმპერია (Osmaletis Imperia)
  • Armenian: Օսմանյան Կայսրություն (Osmanyan Kaysroutyoun)
  • Albanian: Perandoria Osmane [occasionally but very seldom "Otomane"]
  • Hungarian: Oszmán Birodalom (Osman Empire)
  • Macedonian: Отоманска Империја (Otomanska Imperija) or Османлиска Империја (Osmanliska Imperija)

In diplomatic circles, the Ottoman government was often referred to as the "Porte" or the "Sublime Porte," a literal translation of the Ottoman Turkish Bâb-ı Âlî, which was the only gate of Topkapı Palace open to foreigners and the location where the Sultan and his viziers greeted ambassadors.

[edit] References

  1. ^ K.H. Karpat, "Historical continuity and identity change or How to be modern Muslim, Ottoman, and Turk", in: K.H. Karpat (ed.), Ottoman past and today's Turkey (2000), 1-28, esp. 20; G. Ágoston & B.A. Masters, Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (2009), 574.
  2. ^ O. Özgündenli, "Persian Manuscripts in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Libraries", Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, (LINK)

[edit] External links

[edit] Historic maps using the alternative names of the Ottoman Empire

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