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The Tanzimat
The Ottoman Empire in the early 19th Century was in a very weak state. Internal and external affairs threatened the very existence of the empire, from the military movements of Mohammad Ali in Egypt, to the slow European invasion of the Ottoman territories. So it was only obvious that there were many changes that needed to be done in order to fix these obstacles.
In 1839, Sultan Abdulmajid rose to the throne, succeeding his father, Mahmud II. Abdulmajid saw the condition that the empire was in and sought a reform plan to place the empire in a better situation. So he followed a series of Tanzimat, or Royal Decrees, the first of which was promulgated on the 3rd of November, 1839. The decree was issued mainly as a result of the sincere desire on the part of its architect, Mustafa Pasha, to preserve the Empire and to improve the conditions of its inhabitants.
The program for the Tanzimat was organized and defined in a document called Hatt-i Serif. The......

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