1451-1481) and Suleiman I (r. 1520-1566 ... some settled in the Ottoman Empire. The Sultan at the time, Bayezid II, even welcomed elite Jewish refugees to his domains. The status of Orthodox ...

Ertugrul Osman, grandson of Sultan Abdulhamid II and heir to the ... author of "Lords of the Horizons," which tells the history of the Ottoman Empire, in an e-mail to CNN. "Osman himself was ...

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

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