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For suggestions and collaborations - [email protected] Instagram - signorefutbol Join this channel to benefit from the privileges:    / @signorefutbol   The Ottoman Empire was undoubtedly the pinnacle of Turkish history around Anatolia. At its greatest extent, it encompassed an area of ​​over 15 million square kilometers, encompassing more than 40 countries today and spanning three continents. A frequently asked question about the Ottoman Empire is: What would have happened if the Ottoman Empire had survived? Since we are a football channel, we will ask the football version of this: What kind of league would the Ottoman Empire have if it had survived? When the Ottoman Empire reached its greatest extent, we will review the most successful teams of the states within its borders. Let's see which teams would have remained within its borders if the Ottoman Empire had still existed. Let's start with our neighboring country, Greece. Until the Treaty of Edirne in 1828, Greece was almost entirely part of the Ottoman Empire. When we look at the history of Greek football, we see that Olympiacos is by far the most successful team. With 47 league titles, it has more championships than any other team in the country. It also boasts highly important teams like Panathinaikos, AEK, and PAOK. However, even 100 years after the start of professional leagues, no team has won a European trophy. While there were no club-level European cups, they did win Euro 2004 under the management of Otto Rehhagel. Bulgaria, another neighboring country, remained under Ottoman rule for over 500 years. While the most successful teams in Bulgarian history appear to be CSKA Sofia with 31 championships and Levski Sofia with 26, Ludogorets has dominated in recent years. Counting this season, they've won the championship in all 13 of the last 13 seasons, a total of 13 titles. Ludogorest, nicknamed the Eagles of Razgrad, flies a female eagle named Fortuna around the stadium before every match, like Benfica and Lazio. Bulgaria, likewise, has no European cup in its history. Similarly, Macedonia, which was Ottoman territory for over 500 years, isn't a very developed country in terms of football. So much so that, let alone winning a European cup, even qualifying for the group stages of a European competition is considered a success. The team with the most titles in the country is Vardar, known for their surprising elimination of Fenerbahçe. They have 11 titles. Let's move on to Serbia, as we know it with its passionate fans. Counting the occasional championships in the 1940s and 1990s, Serbia only finally established a fully functioning league system in the early 2000s. The country's two most successful teams are Red Star, with 12 championships, and Partizan, with 10. The true success of these two teams dates back to the Yugoslav era. Red Star, with 22 championships, became the team with the most championships in Yugoslavia and also won the Champions League in 1991. They also won the Mitropa Cup, one of Europe's first international club football competitions, twice. Their arch-rivals, Partizan, have won this trophy once. Croatia, which has dominated the last two World Cups, is a country whose league is weak compared to its national team. Their most successful team is Dinamo Zagreb, which produced Modric and has won the championship in 17 of the last 18 years. If we look at the countries that broke away from Yugoslavia, excluding North Macedonia, Serbia, and Croatia, we see that they haven't made much progress in terms of football. While Zrinjski Mostar is the most important team in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ballkani has been the team that has come to the fore in recent years in Kosovo. Even Montenegro's champions struggle to qualify for European competitions. Slovenia, another part of Yugoslavia, is not worth mentioning, as it wasn't a fully Ottoman territory. Slovakia, often confused by the similarity of its names, was briefly Ottoman territory in the mid-1600s. Its most important team is the Slovan club Bratislava, which has won 13 championships. Spartak Trnava, which you saw in Fenerbahçe's European group stages at two different times, is also a Slovak team. Let's continue with Ukraine, which borders the Black Sea. The entire territory of present-day Ukraine wasn't ruled; some cities along the Black Sea coast and in the western regions were conquered. In other words, the country's two biggest teams, Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk, currently located in Donetsk and Kyiv, wouldn't have become Ottoman teams. Although they couldn't advance as far as the center and east, important cities like Lviv were captured as a result of the Ottoman-Polish wars. Considering that Crimea was also under Ottoman rule, the teams from cities like Lviv and Odessa remained within Ottoman borders. Today, these cities are represented in the Ukrainian league by Ruh Lviv and Çornomorets Odessa.