Also known as: Ottoman Empire, Turchia, The Levant, Turkey (Turks)
Referring to the Ottoman Empire in early modern texts, it was viewed by Western thinkers as both a formidable political rival and a source of exotic botanical, medical, and occult knowledge. It represented the 'Orient' in the geographical and cultural imagination.
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