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1922
Ottoman Empire abolished
October 29, 1922
The last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI, slipped out of the back door of the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul and boarded a British warship for exile. With him went six centuries of Ottoman rule. The following year Mustafa Kemal declared the Republic of Turkey. One of history's longest-lived empires had ended without a state funeral.
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