Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131005001125/@comment-32656-20131023160747

More or less. Same concept as cities like Houston or OKC - urban/rural mix.

No, they were not.

...The ERE do what?

Greek nationalism would really not exist.

Doubtful that it is the Ottomans. They were just one Turkish state of many that resulted from that collapse, and it being them that took over - or, really, any of the resulting states taking over - was as much a fluke as anything.

The state existed prior to that in other forms - the family was minor nobles with territory near the Byzantines prior to Othman. He just made it bigger.