Archaeologists: Ottoman Empire Built on Top of Chaise Longue Empire

Arhcaeologists digging in Turkey have discovered that the Ottoman Empire was actually built on top of an earlier empire called the Chaise Longue Empire.

The Ottoman Empire, which lasted for more than 600 years, from 1299 to 1923. At its greatest extent it included Turkey, most of what is now called the Middle East, most of modern Egypt, the coastal regions of North Africa from Egypt to Algeria, and extended beyond s now Greece, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, and Hungary.
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