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Anne M. Jennings and Maurita Poole

The Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire was a territorial aggrega-
tion of ethnicities and races which practiced varia-
tions of policies emphasizing integration rather
than exclusion. Ottoman officials asserted, for
instance, that the empire’s population shared a
supranational identity, the Osmanlı milleti(Otto-
man nationality). This formulation, adopted by
Ahmet Cevdet Pasha (1823–95), the Ottoman
Empire’s premier historian and advisor to three sul-
tans, highlights the many ways state and subject
generally succeeded in navigating the empire’s
diversity for six hundred years.
The role of women proves central to understand-
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