What countries did the Ottoman Turks control?

What Countries Were Part of the Ottoman Empire?

• Turkey.
• Greece.
• Bulgaria.
• Egypt.
• Hungary.
• Macedonia.
• Romania.
• Jordan.

Did Arabs serve in the Ottoman army?

Some 30 percent or more of the wartime Ottoman military of 3 million was been made up of Arab conscripts. Arab units served with distinction on all fronts, including Gallipoli and Russia. Percentages of Arabs among Ottoman officers were only slightly lower than among common soldiers.

When did the Ottoman alphabet change to Turkish?

Ottoman Turkish script was replaced by the Latin -based new Turkish alphabet. Its use became compulsory in all public communications in 1929. The change was formalized by the Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, passed on November 1, 1928, and effective on January 1, 1929.

Why are there no letters in Arabic in Turkish?

When it came to consonants, Arabic has several consonants that do not exist in Turkish, making several Arabic letters superfluous except for Arabic loanwords; conversely, a few letters had to be invented to write words with Turkic and Indo-European roots, as Arabic did not have certain letters, such as g or p.

What was the official language of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey?

When Turks adopted Islam, they began to use Arabic script for their languages, especially under the Kara-Khanids. Though the Seljuks used Persian as their official language, in the late Seljuk period, Turkish began to be written again in Anatolia in the nascent Ottoman state.

What are the different alphabets of the Turkic languages?

The various Turkic languages have been written in a number of different alphabets, including Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Latin and some other Asiatic writing systems. The Ottoman Turkish alphabet is a Turkish form of the Perso-Arabic script. Well suited to writing Arabic and Persian borrowings, it was poorly suited to native Turkish words.