Your thoughts on the Ottoman Empire?

[Mordid]

Do you even think they were much worse than teh Mongol empire?

[HungAryan]

Scenes from "Egri csillagok", showing how 2 000 - 3 000 Hungarians beat the shit out of 35 000 - 40 000 Turks.

Just watch them all.

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[Sagitta Hungarica]

Well of all the Asiatic tribes that invaded Europe (Mongols, Huns, Avars, Bulgars, Magyars, Pechenegs, etc) the Oghuz/Seljuk Turks seem to have been the most successful and left the longest and most enduring legacy.

As a matter of interest, Bulgaria has its name from a Turkic verb bulğa - and came from the Turkic Bulgars, not the Ottomans.

They were so successful that they don't have a state in Europe, practically were kicked out

[Unurautare]

So what about the mosque from one of the biggest Romanian cities, Constanta?

Wasn't that built during the late XIXth c. at the order of the Romanian King as has his name? We don't have mosques from the Ottomans or Golden Horde,we built some for them in the XIXth century because we treat our minorities fairly.

[Loki]

They were so successful that they don't have a state in Europe, practically were kicked out

True, but Anatolia was in those days very connected with Europe through the Byzantine Empire and in the same cultural sphere as Europe.

[HungAryan]

By the time the Ottoman Empire was formed (1299), the Anatolian Turks were far from being Tungid Mongolians...
They were already heavily mixed with Kurds, Arabs, Gypsies, Turkified Greeks and Turkified Armenians.
Heck, the Janissaries (most famous soldiers of the Ottoman Empire) were recruited from abducted Armenian, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Hungarian and Romanian children, because ethnic Turks couldn't fight!

[Sagitta Hungarica]

Wasn't that built during at the order of the Romanian King as has his name? We don't have mosques from the Ottomans or Golden Horde,we built some for them in the XIXth century because we treat our minorities fairly.

So Romanians actually built a mosque for the Turks?

[Hess]

It's more pathethic that you could never recover it.

it is indeed a shame. Still, this is just one the many examples of a small, elite European force fighting to the end against much larger horde.

[Unurautare]

So Romanians actually built a mosque for the Turks?

For the Muslims living in Dobrogea,but they are few in numbers.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...ues_in_Romania Seems there is one that was built by Muslims themselves in the XVI century,whatever Dobrogea was never really part of the traditional Romanian lands,it has even more minorities than Transylvania.

[HungAryan]

Remember Eger Ottomans, remember Eger!
2 000 - 3 000 Hungarians beaten the living SHIT out of 35 000 - 40 000 Turks.

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