Introduction Turkey is the country of the southwest Asia and southeast Europe between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas. Turkey became part of the Byzantine Empire; afterwards the region was occupied by the Ottoman Turks between the 13th and the 16th centuries and maintained as the center of the Ottoman Empire. This research paper is all about the two empires in Turkey: the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The Byzantine Empire was in the site of Byzantium, where it was a small town but it was a very important place during this time because this site used to be where the Byzantium Empire laid, the area was highly fertile, also stood as the guard over the only entrance into the Black Sea, and it laid by a deep bay which was the golden horn- meaning this city could only be attacked by the west.
The Byzantine Empire is also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire because it was in fact the continuation of the East Roman Empire during the time when Constantinople as the capital of Turkey. Constantine the Great ruled the whole Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire’s fall was in the 1453 then afterwards it was occupied by the Ottoman Turks which was a group of individuals in the Ottoman Empire. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire took over its position. The Ottoman Empire’s name was derived from its founder, Osman I, who was also a Turkish Muslim Warrior. The Ottoman Empire is a former Turkish Empire and was founded by Osman I in the late