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Book Name	Turkey The Quest for Identity
Author	Feroz Ahmad
Publish Year	2003
Publisher	Oneworld Publications, England
Language	English
Genre	Turkey
ISBN	1–85168–241–4
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The Ottomans were a rare imperial people who had no homeland to retreat to as their empire waned in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Other imperial peoples had returned to various homelands: the British to their island base when they were forced to decolonize; the French to France, the Spanish to Spain, and so on. By the twentieth century, the Ottomans had no homeland for they had originated as tribal peoples who, for a variety of reasons, had been forced to migrate from the steppes of Central and Inner Asia and went in different directions. Some of these tribal confederations, including the ones who came to be known as Ottoman (Osmanl ) adopting the name of their leader, Osman (d.1324), migrated into the Islamic world and adopted Islam.