The Ottoman Empire — which had ruled portions of southeastern Europe, the Levant, and North Africa since the late 13th century — was formally abolished by the Turkish Grand National Assembly in what year?
The Ottoman sultanate was abolished by the Grand National Assembly on 1 November 1922. The last sultan, Mehmed VI, left Constantinople aboard a British warship two weeks later. The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed almost a year later, on 29 October 1923 — a common but slightly wrong answer to this question. The Mudros armistice (1918) ended Ottoman participation in WWI but did not abolish the sultanate. The Young Turk revolution (1908) restored the suspended 1876 constitution but kept the sultan.
Read the full facts →The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish-Muslim state that ruled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa from approximately 1299 to 1922. It was one of the longest-continuous empires in world history and the dominant Islamic power for most of its existence.