Which one opposing empire was primarily responsible for the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

Which one opposing empire was primarily responsible for the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

Aeternal Anglo

>the anglo that saved their ass in the crimean war
>the anglo that cucked the russians out of san stefano
>the anglo that gave them loans

Fucking Russia

Agreed, anglo is at least semifriend of Turk.

If Anglo had just given Turk their battleships like they promised they wouldn't have joined silly Germans in WW1 and would have still be friend with anglo.

austria-hungary

Turks themselves.

The Janissary rebellion set them back a long time, since it was started after the Ottoman rulers wanted to modernize the army.

Janissaries got cucked by the Sipahi when Mahmud told them it was over.

Also janissaries weren't Turks retard.

Eternal Spic prevented them to be the dominant power in the Mediterranean.

>Also janissaries weren't Turks
later on they were ethnically, also the earlier janissaries were also turks if you speak the turkish language and assimilate into the turkish culture you are turkish similar to america and americans.

Malta

So, are Bosnians Turks?

no, they and albanians are living manure

In order: Spain
Austria
Portugal
Russia

What? Spain never even waged war against them.

They scuffled in North Africa and at Sea a few times.

Nothing major.

Spaniards think they were important for defending much christendom because of shit like Lepanto but in reality that was only significant for the Christians. The Ottomans just rebuilt their fleet overwinter.

a lack of modernization and a lack of actual governing in the outermost territories basically meant that when the enemies of the empire finally got organized enough to rebel, there was little actual ottoman presence in, say, bosnia and serbia

>constantly impeding their trade and naval dominance is nothing major
Lmao

t.b.h. Serbia is a different case, as the 1804 Uprising actually began with the Sultan's consent - for the first phase of the conflict, the Serbs were rebelling against the provincial governors who essentially rejected the authority of the Porte and ruled as despots. They complained to the Sultan and he was supportive of the rebellion (because he wouldn't have to lose men to remove the troublesome pashas). It's only after the Serbs won (i.e. destroyed all formal Ottoman presence in Serbia) that they decided to go all the way and fought the Sultan's troops as well in order to gain full independence.

>spearhead the development of western trade routes along with portugal
They didn't have to wage war against them.

Austria, obviously. How can you go on for 20 replies without mentioning the calamitous Siege of Vienna which led to the Second War of the Holy Alliance where an Austrian general penetrated the Ottoman Empire from its border at modern-day Bratislava all the way to Kosovo in only six years, causing revolts, the beheading of the current Ottoman leadership, Venetian attempts to re-establish themselves in the Aegean after 150 years of Turkish supremacy, the so-called era of tulips where a thorough reform of Ottoman society was attempted for the first time in centuries, and most importantly, the loss of most of the former Kingdom of Hungary which had taken the Ottomans decades to conquer in just 13 years?

The empire was basically irrevocably ruined by the Battle of Vienna and never regained its military footing ever again. Especially after 1792 the Ottomans served as nothing more than a British-controlled foil for Russian ambitions and the Porte no longer exercised any real measure of control over the provinces.

The Ottoman Empire

I would say the russians.
After a while the austrians were content with hungary but the the russians did everything they could to get istanbul.
But like all great empires the greatest damage was done from the inside.

austria or russia

good explenation

The turks

The only good answer.

Germany, actually. The collapse of the Concert of Europe due to German Unification meant Ottoman dismemberment was bound to happen sooner or later.

They were far too slow to modernize. Injected themselves with AIDS then Russia kicked them in the ribs till they died