The "OTTOMAN EMPIRE"

The "OTTOMAN EMPIRE " - 1299 - 1922 A.D
(Osmanlı İmparatorluğu)

Founder - Osman Bey
Additional information:
The Ottoman Empire preceded the modern Turkish Republic.
Flag: The alleged flag of the Ottoman Empire is red with a white crescent and an eight-pointed star.
Area: Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Arabia, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Anatolia, Caucasia, the Crimea, Bessarabia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, the Sudan,.....and, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea were for a time - Turkish Lakes.
(Total Area - 20,000,000 Km²)