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The Franco-Ottoman Capitulations of 1604 refer to Sultan Ahmed I as "Sultan and Emperor of the Turks", was it normal for official correspondence to refer to the Ottoman Sovereigns as rulers of an ethnic group instead of an Empire?

by /u/Blackfire853 in /r/AskHistorians

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