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Old 04-11-2008, 13:32 PM   #22 (permalink)
dave lukins
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Originally Posted by snc128 View Post
ghengis(cengiz) khan, scipio, alexander the great, atilla the hun, salahaddin eyyubi, julius caesar, kublai(kubilay) khan they all were extraordinary military leaders.
but Mustafa K.Atatürk, Fatih the Conquerer and the Suleyman the Maginificient should be included in the list.

Atatürk created unbelievable strategies where there was no power equilibrium and changed the destiny of a nation completely.

the conquest of Istanbul (actually Constantinopole) by Sultan Mehmed the Conquest is a real militarist and strategical achievement all on its own.

Suleyman the magnificient increased the Ottoman territory from 2million km^2 to 6million km^2 in his nearly 40 years reign period.it means 3 times bigger...
Suleyman increased and Ataturk took away... well, he abolished the Ottoman caliphate
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