Modern name for Ottoman Empire?

wormyguy

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It would probably be like the UK: officially being known as the Ottoman Empire, but often (incorrectly) called "Turkey" in the same way that the UK is often incorrectly called "England".

I was under the impression that their official name was the Sublime Porte, and "Ottoman Empire" was itself a nickname referring to the Osman dynasty.
 
I was under the impression that their official name was the Sublime Porte, and "Ottoman Empire" was itself a nickname referring to the Osman dynasty.

The "Sublime Porte" refers to the gateway to the Topkapi palace. It's use to refer to the Ottoman government is like referring to the "English throne" doing something.
 

Wolfpaw

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Its official name was "the Sublime Ottoman State" in Turkish, though commonly shortened to "the Ottoman State."

I think nowadays it would colloquially be known as "Turkey" in the West. Just like not every Russian is Russian, not every Turk would be a Turk.
 

Wolfpaw

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The "Sublime Porte" refers to the gateway to the Topkapi palace. It's use to refer to the Ottoman government is like referring to the "English throne" doing something.
More analogous to White House/Downing Street/Whitehall/Kremlin/Wilhelmstraße/Quai d'Orsay, etc; it's a metonymic for the government.
 
Both of those terms only refer to a single region of the Empire though.

The Levant would quite frankly not be acceptable since the region only housed a small part of the population, it'd be like caling 20th century American New England.

While Mashriq would house a larger portion, and the large majority of the Arab population, it again does not include the more populous and important Anatolia and European portions.

Does Mashriq specifically not include Anatolia, or is it generally assumed to be South of it?
 
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