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. Characters from this state disagree on whether having individual “style” is immoral and inspect the shapes of horses’ nostrils in another novel. Chapters of that novel set in this empire are narrated by a Jewish clothier who secretly passes notes and a man “who will be called a murderer.” In that novel set in this empire, Olive, Butterfly, and Stork are suspected of killing the miniaturist Elegant Effendi. For 10 points, name this empire where painters work for the sultan in Orhan Pamuk’s novel My Name is Red. ■END■
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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