[Letitring]

Maps of the old Ottoman Empire:

http://www.naqshbandi.org/ottomans/maps/default.htm

[Letitring]

Map of the old Roman Empire:

http://www.dalton.org/groups/Rome/RMap.html

[texasbluebell]

So.

They were really in an expansionist phase for about 400 years.

Then they lost a lot of their empire/territory for a couple of hundred years.

Now...they're back...expanding again...with a vengeance too.