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After Columbus' discovery of America in 1492, Spain embarked on a process of colonisation for the next 300 years or so. All of Spain's rivals participated in this process, each carving out a slice of the Americas for themselves.

However, the only rival (if you discount Venice for the moment) that didn't colonise the New World was the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans had captured the Canary Islands by 1585, and Madiera by 1617. Ottoman ships had got as far as Iceland and in the 1660s were seen off the coast of Virginia by English colonists. Could the Ottomans have carved out a small muslim enclave in America for themselves.....
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