There's two things in this world that I can't Stand.
@wolfcity: I'm fairly certain the final end of the Ottoman Empire will suprise damn near everyone, I know it surprised me.
@Enewald: Patience
The remaining years of the century would be relatively quiet for the Ottoman Empire, however would all display the growing weakness of the Empire. In Arabia, the Empire's grip would slowly crumble over 1596 and 1597, with another attempted rebellion by the General of Najd. Although this rebellion would be defeated, it would allow the Egyptian General to claim further autonomy, becoming virtually independent. However this would be of less importance than the same being claimed by several Anatolian Generals, thus damaging the Empire's power in its own core territory.
However the rebellion would not proceed any further, and much of late 1597 would see a peaceful, if vastly weakenned, Ottoman Empire, roughly paralleling the calm experienced by much of Europe after the Terrible Devestation wrought in the wake of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Much of early 1598 would see Jem attempt a series of far reaching and innovative financial reforms, many of which began to be successfully implemented as early as June of 1598 and concerned mostly the reorganization of the Ottoman Beaurocracy and Tax Districts, in addition to a complete reorganization and reduction of the Ottoman Army, redeploying many of the soldiers to new locations and seeing the army itself reorganized around a relatively small core of Elite Soldiers, most of whom had served directly under Jem in the Regent's War.
With these reforms completed, and the new group of Ottoman Governors and Generals instated into the newly reformed Ottoman Divan, the Empire experienced a brief period of prosperity which would be brought to a close by two short wars in 1599 and 1600, the first against the combined armies of Algiers and Morocco, and the second against the Polish Confederation.
The North African war primarily concerned the invasion of Ottoman Tunisia, still officially under the control of an Ottoman Appointed Governor-General, and still paying fealty to the Sultan. The Beylerbey of Algiers had long been pressuring the Governor to instead enter into his orbit. With Jem rapidly extending his control over the Empire, the Beylerbey began to grow bolder in his attempts, and after a few insults from the bey of Tunisia, relations reached the breaking point and Algiers invaded.
With the support of Morocco the Tunisian defenses were eaasily overwhelmed, and, growing more confident, the Beylerbey pushed onwards into Tripolitania, however this proved to be a mistake, as this would drive the Bey of Tripolitania back into Jem's orbit and overextended the Beylerbey's forces, allowing a combined army of Tripolitanian and Ottoman Forces, led by Jem himself, to defeat the armies of algiers and force a retreat back to Tunis itself. Despite this, a full victory for Jem was impossible, as once his forces moved into Southern Tunisia the Sultan of Morocco mobilized his armies in support of Algiers, and these armies now outnumbered the forces of Jem, thus forcing Jem to cede the city of Tunis and the surrounding lands.
Despite this defeat, Jem had secured the total allegiance of the Bey of Tripolitania, thus actually increasing the territory of the Empire and securing some sort of a victory, which would be repeated in the last war of the century the Ottoman Empire would find itself in, prompted by the Polish Confederation attempting to extend its influence into the Crimea, prompting Jem to respond with an invasion of the Zhaparozhie.
Although the war would last for several months throughout much of late, there was little actual combat, consisting entirely of a few large battles in the North of the Ottoman Crimea, and one battle near the city of Azow. Poland refrained from comitting any more of its forces, likely to keep read should its intervention be required in the looming War for Empire.
Despite this, hostilities continued until late in the year 1600, when peace would be signed seeing the northernmost extreme of the Zhaparozhie ceded to the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire following the last wars of the Century
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@wolfcity: I'm fairly certain the final end of the Ottoman Empire will suprise damn near everyone, I know it surprised me.
@Enewald: Patience
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The World of 1600
Chapter 1: The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Regent's War
Part IV
The World of 1600
Chapter 1: The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Regent's War
Part IV
The remaining years of the century would be relatively quiet for the Ottoman Empire, however would all display the growing weakness of the Empire. In Arabia, the Empire's grip would slowly crumble over 1596 and 1597, with another attempted rebellion by the General of Najd. Although this rebellion would be defeated, it would allow the Egyptian General to claim further autonomy, becoming virtually independent. However this would be of less importance than the same being claimed by several Anatolian Generals, thus damaging the Empire's power in its own core territory.
However the rebellion would not proceed any further, and much of late 1597 would see a peaceful, if vastly weakenned, Ottoman Empire, roughly paralleling the calm experienced by much of Europe after the Terrible Devestation wrought in the wake of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Much of early 1598 would see Jem attempt a series of far reaching and innovative financial reforms, many of which began to be successfully implemented as early as June of 1598 and concerned mostly the reorganization of the Ottoman Beaurocracy and Tax Districts, in addition to a complete reorganization and reduction of the Ottoman Army, redeploying many of the soldiers to new locations and seeing the army itself reorganized around a relatively small core of Elite Soldiers, most of whom had served directly under Jem in the Regent's War.
With these reforms completed, and the new group of Ottoman Governors and Generals instated into the newly reformed Ottoman Divan, the Empire experienced a brief period of prosperity which would be brought to a close by two short wars in 1599 and 1600, the first against the combined armies of Algiers and Morocco, and the second against the Polish Confederation.
The North African war primarily concerned the invasion of Ottoman Tunisia, still officially under the control of an Ottoman Appointed Governor-General, and still paying fealty to the Sultan. The Beylerbey of Algiers had long been pressuring the Governor to instead enter into his orbit. With Jem rapidly extending his control over the Empire, the Beylerbey began to grow bolder in his attempts, and after a few insults from the bey of Tunisia, relations reached the breaking point and Algiers invaded.
With the support of Morocco the Tunisian defenses were eaasily overwhelmed, and, growing more confident, the Beylerbey pushed onwards into Tripolitania, however this proved to be a mistake, as this would drive the Bey of Tripolitania back into Jem's orbit and overextended the Beylerbey's forces, allowing a combined army of Tripolitanian and Ottoman Forces, led by Jem himself, to defeat the armies of algiers and force a retreat back to Tunis itself. Despite this, a full victory for Jem was impossible, as once his forces moved into Southern Tunisia the Sultan of Morocco mobilized his armies in support of Algiers, and these armies now outnumbered the forces of Jem, thus forcing Jem to cede the city of Tunis and the surrounding lands.
Despite this defeat, Jem had secured the total allegiance of the Bey of Tripolitania, thus actually increasing the territory of the Empire and securing some sort of a victory, which would be repeated in the last war of the century the Ottoman Empire would find itself in, prompted by the Polish Confederation attempting to extend its influence into the Crimea, prompting Jem to respond with an invasion of the Zhaparozhie.
Although the war would last for several months throughout much of late, there was little actual combat, consisting entirely of a few large battles in the North of the Ottoman Crimea, and one battle near the city of Azow. Poland refrained from comitting any more of its forces, likely to keep read should its intervention be required in the looming War for Empire.
Despite this, hostilities continued until late in the year 1600, when peace would be signed seeing the northernmost extreme of the Zhaparozhie ceded to the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottoman Empire following the last wars of the Century
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