>>518800413 (OP)
It was kinda like the combine, you ascended the ranks and became Turkish, or you stayed in the mud as a Greek. That's why the nation used to stretch all the way to Armenia and now barely controls Thrace, they ate us industrially like a woodchipper
>>518801227
To be fair the Ottoman Empire was already in a heavy decline by 1790. Their peak was 1500-1600 and then they went to shit until the collapse after WWI