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In what year was the Ottoman Empire formally abolished?
The Ottoman sultanate was formally abolished by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on 1 November 1922. The last sultan, Mehmed VI, left Constantinople on a British warship two weeks later. The Republic of Turkey was proclaimed on 29 October 1923 (1923 is a common but slightly wrong answer). 1918 is the Mudros armistice; 1908 the Young Turk revolution.
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The Ottoman Empire 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.
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