The Ottoman empire had seen coexistence between different ethnic and religious minorities for many centuries but it was also an absolutist empire which became in the 19th century a cauldron of nationalist discontents.
L'Empire ottoman, où diverses minorités ethniques et religieuses avaient coexisté pendant des siècles, était aussi un empire absolutiste qui est devenu, au XIX siècle, un foyer de mécontentements nationalistes.