>>511449319
Ottoman Empire was ruled by Greeks and Jews and their military was compromised of Greeks and Slavs. Modern day Turks were the dalit-class of ottoman empire, peasant farmers that provided resources for the elite and warrior class, Look up the Fanoriti district in Constantinople, that is where the Greek elite resided during Ottoman times. Greeks were the backbone of the ottoman Empire and lived largely the same as they did in Byzantine period. By the time Ottomans arrive in Constantinople in 1453, there were only 10,000 residents left in the city, most Greeks had fled to Peloponnese and islands 2 centuries before Ottomans came. Both Constantinople and Athens were abandoned after a series of Wars and plague outbreaks in the 12th-13th centuries.
