OTTOMAN EMPIRE
The Ottoman Empire is the Turkish state that existed from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Founded in Anatolia, although its borders have changed throughout its history, in its largest period today's Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania and the islands in the east of the Mediterranean, Hungary and some parts of Russia, the Caucasus, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, Algeria. It covered all of North Africa and part of Arabia until .