The fact that the Turkish Khans are the heirs of Rome, and the fact that they are Kaisers?

[TerribleTurk]

Depiction of the Turkish Emperor, the lord of 3 continents

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In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror styled himself as 'Kaiser-i Rum' ('Caesar of the Romans')

[NamerOfStars]

Um, that's pretty far from a fact; when Rome fall, the Turks were still wandering around as steppe nomads and Islam didn't exist yet. The heirs of the Romans (the empire, at least) would the Byzantines; I could see calling the Turks THEIR heirs, but most of the conquest of Anatolia was about destruction, rather than outright conquest- they did a dandy job of rebuilding, but that's not the same thing.

Also, you can't really be "lord of three continents" when three of the six were unknown at the time and your empire had no presence in Africa, or even east of the Urals. Even if you count Europe as a continent, Mehmed controlled only about 7 percent of it- and that's if you count Anatolia.

The Ottoman empire would go on to claim the social and political (and economic, to a lesser extent) position that Rome held, but that's not the same as being an heir. Also, they haven't had an emperor in over a century.

[Christoff92]

Yes. Sultan Mehmed The Conquerer was declared the title Ceaser of Rome. Due of reconqured the Roman territories.

[Anonymous]

Maybe.