Changes And Continuities In The 14th Century

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In the Early fourteenth century, Osmanli or Ottoman state was just one of the small states that resulted from disintegration of the Seljuq sultanate in Anatolia, the expansion of ottoman state continued gradually to contain former Byzantine territories in Anatolia and the Balkans, Constantinople -the capital of Eastern Christendom-, Mamluk empire-the most powerful Islamic state-, to reach by the sixteenth century central Europe from the west and Indian ocean from the east, this great expansion gave the Ottomans the status of a world power. In the arts, the Byzantine, Mamluk, and Persian traditions were integrated to form a distinctly Ottoman artistic vocabulary. Significant changes came about with the establishment of the new capital in former