Question

In a novel that fictionalizes this historical state, a princess and her husband investigate the murder of a health inspector on the island of Mingheria during a plague outbreak. In another novel, an enslaved man and an astrologer who closely resembles him build a faulty iron weapon for this state. (10[3])Characters from this state (10[1])disagree on whether having individual “style” (10[1]-5[1])is immoral and inspect the shapes of horses’ nostrils (-5[2])in another novel. Chapters of that novel set in this empire (10[2])are (10[1])narrated (10[1])by a Jewish clothier (10[1])who secretly (10[2])passes notes (10[1])and a man “who will be called a murderer.” (10[1])In that novel set in this empire, (-5[1])Olive, Butterfly, (10[3]-5[1])and Stork (10[2])are suspected (10[2])of killing the miniaturist (10[2])Elegant Effendi. (10[4])For 10 points, (10[2])name this empire (10[1])where painters work for the sultan (10[2])in Orhan (10[4])Pamuk’s (10[1])novel My Name (10[1])is Red. (10[2])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: Ottoman Empire [or Sublime Ottoman State or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti or Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmâniyye] (The first two lines refer to Nights of Plague and The White Castle.)
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