. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. 208 : I TFIE TURKS. 209 Tliey made rapid conquests under the first Sultan Bajazet (1389-1402),over the varied and disunited races of the Balkan peninsula, Earlyconquering or plundering the greater part of it, but not as conquests,yet possessing Constantinople. But Timor or Tamerlanes great victoryat Angora (1402) checked the Turkish advance for a time, until Mahomet -•^r«.V.
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. 208 : I TFIE TURKS. 209 Tliey made rapid conquests under the first Sultan Bajazet (1389-1402),over the varied and disunited races of the Balkan peninsula, Earlyconquering or plundering the greater part of it, but not as conquests,yet possessing Constantinople. But Timor or Tamerlanes great victoryat Angora (1402) checked the Turkish advance for a time, until Mahomet -•^r«.V. SULTAK ABDUL HAMID II. I the Conqueror (1451-1481), having taken Constantinople in 1453, sub-dued the whole peninsula, except some parts held by Venice, Taking of and the Montenegrin mountaineers. He was recognised as Constant!- . not)l6 superior lord of Hungary, Transylvania, Moldavia, and much of South Eussia. In the sixteenth century this became an actual rule; IV. P THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE, and many more conquests in Asia and Africa were gathered in to the Ottoman empire. Crete was conquered in the middle of the seventeenth century, and in 1676 Podolia was won from Poland. Their defeat at Vienna in 1683 was the commencement of the decline of the power of the Tm-ks. In 1699 the peace of Carlowitz gave all Pelo- ^ ,. , ponnesus to Venice; but it was won back a score of years later ;Decline of ??^ . . Turkish and it was not till the present century that the Greek peninsulapower. ^^^ gradually lost to the Turks. But other losses, already de-tailed, have reduced the population
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