Botros was a rebel, though within limits: he thought the collapsing Ottoman empire could be saved as a constitutional monarchy, a state composed of many nations.

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The Ottoman Empire, which lasted from 1299 to 1923, was, for over a century, the most powerful state in the world, extending over three continents.

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