Istanbul is a glorious city. It was once the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and its name at that time was Constantinople. Until now, many people who regard themselves as the successors of the Byzantine Empire (that is, the Eastern Roman Empire) are still willing to call it Constantinople.
This city is called Constantinople. For example, in Tsarist Russia, the Tsar has been trying to occupy this city and inherit the orthodoxy of the Byzantine Empire.
Since the Byzantine Empire, Istanbul has been a symbol of prosperity. The luxurious life of the Byzantine Empire made the Western European monarchs who led their troops during the Crusades feel like beggars. Later, despite several wars, the city's prosperity remained
It remained the same, and after the Ottoman Empire in its youth occupied this ancient capital and renamed it Istanbul, it made it even more prosperous.
The sultan of the Ottoman Empire built the splendid Topkapi Palace on the small peninsula south of the ancient capital. After hundreds of years of expansion, this palace has become one of the symbols of the Ottoman Empire.
This palace was just like the Ottoman Empire today, rich, splendid and magnificent, but fragile and vulnerable.
The Ottoman Empire was once an extremely powerful and terrifying empire for Europeans. Originally, this empire was just a Turkish tribe called Ottoman. After entering the new millennium, the leader of the tribe established a small country with the name of the tribe. At that time, it was
Calling yourself an empire is a very ridiculous thing in the eyes of the people around you, but this small empire seems to have really been favored by Allah. Powerful and terrifying high-level goddesses are constantly being born, and with these
The sultans who are a combination of gods and concubines are also heroes with strong enterprising spirit and leadership ability.
For ten generations, the Ottoman Empire grew into a huge country. To the north, it captured the glorious Constantinople and drank from the Danube River. To the south, it occupied the entire Arabian Peninsula and made Egypt and other countries its vassals.
This huge empire was handed over to the powerful Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Suleiman the Magnificent was lucky enough to get a powerful wife Roxelana from a Russian slave trader, and the two of them joined forces to lead the Ottoman Empire.
They captured Belgrade and Budapest. Then they almost captured Vienna, the home of the Habsburg dynasty.
And then...then the glory of the Ottoman Empire ended here.
Roxelana's later years were very disgraceful. She murdered the extremely talented and talented heir of Suleiman the Magnificent, so that the incompetent person she gave birth to inherited this huge empire. From then on, the empire began to develop.
decay.
After Suleiman the Magnificent, the rulers of the Ottoman Empire were either tyrants or incompetent tyrants. In short, they were all tyrants who did not run away. These unfilial descendants failed to inherit the bravery and talents of their ancestors. Instead, they passed on some bad habits.
Down: They build a kind of cage called the boudoir, capture the women they like and lock them in it, treat them like property, and never let them go out. Once they get tired of playing, they will drown and leave the boudoir for another one.
Among them, Sultan Ibrahim was the most cruel. Because someone reported that a lonely girl in his boudoir had a romantic relationship with a black eunuch, he ordered all 280 beautiful women in the boudoir to be drowned, and then searched and arrested them nationwide.
Beautiful women fill his empty boudoir.
It is a strange thing that a country ruled by such a cruel and corrupt monarch could survive until the twentieth century beside the rise of Europe.
The fact that the Ottoman Empire was able to safely survive the conflict-ridden nineteenth century was entirely due to the British. The British needed the Ottoman Empire to fight against Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But neither the British nor the European powers stopped encroaching on the Ottoman Empire.
territory.
Throughout the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was just as miserable as the equally decadent Qing Empire in the East—perhaps it was a little more miserable. If the Qing Empire was the sick man of East Asia, then the Ottoman Empire was the sick man of Europe, and everyone wanted to come.
Take advantage of it.
Now, the threat from Russia suddenly disappeared, and Britain suddenly discovered that the meaning of retaining the Ottoman Empire no longer existed. On the contrary, because Germany had been adopting a strategy of wooing the Turks and building a railway from Berlin to Baghdad, the Ottoman Empire suddenly became Germany.
An effective way to threaten Britain in the Middle East and British India. Intelligence pointed out that Berlin is preparing to extend the railway to Baghdad to Basra, and then connect it to the port on the Persian Gulf in Kuwait. In this way, Germany will gain an outlet on the Persian Gulf.
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Under the current situation, if Germany establishes a sky battleship base in the Persian Gulf, Britain's sea routes to India will be in danger of being cut off.
This is one of the most important reasons why the British pushed for the Chinese-British coalition to occupy Baghdad.
The British couldn't sit still, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire couldn't sit still either. It had long wanted to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it even wanted to take over Albania and Macedonia.
In addition to the great powers, those Slavic countries that had fled from the empire were also eyeing them. The two new countries, Greece and Bulgaria, were not afraid of the huge Ottoman Empire at all, and were always thinking of seizing more land from the decadent empire - of course, Serbia
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At this moment, the crumbling empire is ruled by Sultan Abdulhamid II, the tyrant who suppressed the second constitutional reform in 1878 and lives in the luxurious Topkapi Palace.
, has a huge boudoir that can accommodate four hundred beauties, and is called the most promiscuous monarch in the world by the European media. Of course, this title no longer belongs to him. The uncrowned king of the Pacific has snatched the crown of the Sultan.
Abdulhamid II killed innocent people at will. In the last decade of the 19th century alone, he brutally massacred hundreds of thousands of Armenians. The blades of his army were stained with Bulgaria.
The blood of Romanians and even Croats, so the Slavs and Christians on the Balkan Peninsula hated the tyrant of Istanbul.
Not only did the Slavs hate this tyrant, the Turks themselves also hated him, which is why Enver and his Young Turks rose so quickly.
On June 1, 1908, the sound of gunfire awakened Istanbul. The city defense troops loyal to Al-Shabaab, with the support of the Armenian goddess and the goddess of two Kurdish tribes, broke into the magnificent Topkapi Palace. Due to the garrison
The Shenji troops stood still and acquiesced in the coup. Abdulhamid II was beaten to death in bed together with his four most beloved women.
Germany immediately showed concern about the situation, as the new Ottoman regime would decide the fate of the Baghdad Railway.
The UK is also watching the situation closely as it will determine whether they need to take Baghdad armed.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire fell into ecstasy, because they were originally preparing to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina, but now the internal turmoil in the Ottoman Empire made the Austro-Hungarian Empire feel that they might be able to annex more.
Both the United States and the Chinese Federation are in a state of imminent election, and on the surface they both maintain a posture of sitting back and watching the fight between tigers and tigers.
At this moment, everyone thinks that this Balkan crisis will end within a year, and the outcome will be no different from the previous crises: the European powers will each get what they need, and the Ottoman Empire will go home and cry.