Kranz, Margarita I. Introduction (CT) [German version] A. The Ottoman Period (CT) The turn to Classical Antiquity (an un-Islamic, heathen past and a foreign, predominantly Greek history) had necessarily to come up against the rejection of the Turkish Muslims of the Ottoman period, and likewise of the nationalist Turkish Republic for religious and nationalistic reasons. An increased consideration of Antiquity may be observed in Ottoman Turkey (T.) around the middle of the 19th cent., as a result of the efforts at reform by Mahmud II (1808-1839), in the context of a Tanzımat ('reorganis…