نشأة الـبحـرية العــثـمانية حتى نهاية القرن الرابع عشر الـميلادي

Abstract

The Ottoman Navy is one of the Ottoman army institutions that helped them extend their influence in the sea areas in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, even the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The Ottoman Empire was able to establish a naval fleet that soon surpassed and jumped to the ranks of the fleets of the major countries، as it proved to possess the elements of a maritime state, so it built ships of various types, including commercial and military.