| More time, please; I got them all by repeatedly clicking the back button as time ran out. The Federal Republic of Germany regained sovereignty in 1949. After adding up "Turkey (The Ottoman Empire)" in Europe, in Asia and in Africa, my reprint of the 1900 Whitaker's Almanack says, "Nominally, therefore, the Turkish Empire has an area of 1,710,000 square miles, with about 39,500,000 inhabitants, but of the vast territories only 1,145,500 square miles, with 22,100,000 inhabitants, are under the direct rule of the Turks, the rest paying a tribute, or merely acknowledging the suzerainty of the Porte." (i.e. the Sublime Porte, an imperial soubriquet like the Kremlin or Buckingham Palace). |