| OSMANLI | A Turk of the Ottoman empire (7) |
| SICKMAN | The ___ of Europe, 19th century description of the Ottoman Empire (4,3) |
| RUMELIA | Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire |
| LEBANON | Smallest country of continental Asia, part of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1918 (7) |
| TOPKAPI | The ____ Palace in Istanbul was once the administrative centre of the Ottoman Empire |
| TURKISH | Language of the Ottoman empire (7) |
| PIASTRE | Old coin of the Ottoman Empire |
| OTTOMAN | Tomato puree with a bit of nut for a Turk (7) |
| SHANKAR | Performer at Woodstock of what a Turk might do to enthral his capital, briefly? (4,7) |
| OUTRANK | Be superior to a Turk on ground (7) |
| AGRIPPA | Commander of the Ottoman fleet that defeated Mark Antony at Actium (7) |
| GALLIPOLI | Peninsula of NW Turkey between the Dardanelles and the Aegean Sea, scene of an attempted invasion of the Ottoman Empire by Allied forces during World War I 1915 (9) |
| SULEIMAN | ___ the Magnificent, also known as ' the lawgiver', 16th-century sultan of the Ottoman empire (8) |
| NEAREAST | Former name for the Balkan States and the area of the Ottoman Empire (4,4) |
| BURSA | Turkish city, the capital of the Ottoman empire from the 1320s to 1402 (5) |
| OSMAN | I is regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Empire (5) |
| AHMED | Name of three sultans of the Ottoman Empire (5) |
| MEHMEDVI | The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire (6,2) |
| TURKEY | Country once the centre of the Ottoman Empire (6) |
| TULIP | This flower was once a symbol of the Ottoman Empire (5) |
