The Armenian Genocide: The Ottoman Empire

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The Ottoman Empire had an Armenian genocide that happened happened in 1950. The empire came into power in 1299 and was founded in the end of the 13th century by Oghuz, a Tturkish tribal leader. It was located in the historically known area of western europe also know as the Turkish Empire, aka Turkey, that was ruled under islamic law that made its so non -muslims were second class . The Oottomans crossed into eEurope in 1354 and then came in and ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of cConstantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. It was in its heighthighest of its power in the 16th and 17th century under the control of Suleiman the Magnificent.
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