What is Ottoman architecture?
[[File:Flickr - Fighting Irish 1977 - Mohamed Ali Mosque, Cairo.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Mohamed Ali Mosque, [[Cairo]]; an example of classic Ottoman architecture}}]] '''Ottoman architecture''' is the [[architecture]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. It [[wikt:emerge|emerge]]d in [[Bursa]] and [[Edirne]] in 14th and 15th centuries. The architecture of the empire developed from the earlier [[Seljuk architecture]]. It was [[wikt:influence|influence]]d by the [[Byzantine architecture|Byzantine]], [[Iran|Iranian]] and [[Seljuk architecture]]. <ref>''Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Architecture'', ed. Cyril M. Harris, (Dover Publications, 1977), 485.</ref><ref>''Architecture(Muhammadan)'', H. Saladin, ''Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics'', Vol.1, Ed. James Hastings and John Alexander, (Charles Scribner's son, 1908), 753.</ref> It was also influenced by [[Islam]]ic [[Mamluk]] traditions after the [[Fall of Constantinople|conquest of Constantinople]] by the Ottomans.<ref name=muqarnas12>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtbeBrAHhxgC&dq=Ottoman+Architecture&pg=PA60|title=Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Volume 12|last=Necipoğlu|first=Gülru|oclc=33228759|year=1995|publisher=Leiden : E.J. Brill|accessdate=2007-08-20|page=60|isbn=978-90-04-10314-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INsmT6zjAl8C&dq=Ottoman+Architecture&pg=RA1-PA29|title=Islamic Architecture in Cairo: An Introduction|last=Behrens-Abouseif|first=Doris|isbn=90-04-08677-3 |year=1989|publisher=Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill|accessdate=2007-08-20 |page=29}}</ref><ref name=european>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wgPSUQ873scC&dq=Ottoman+Architecture&pg=PA193 |title=The Europeans: A Geography of People, Culture, and Environment|last1=Rice|first1=John Gordon|author2=Robert Clifford Ostergren|issn=0033-0124 |year=2005|journal=The Professional Geographer|volume=57|issue=4|accessdate=2007-08-20|publisher=Guilford Press|isbn=978-0-89862-272-0}}</ref> For almost 400 years Byzantine