Some of its highest posts were held under foreigners known as Phanariots.  
Some of its highest posts were held under foreigners known as Phanariots.  The local governors, or hospodars, were notoriously corrupt and engaged in widespread bribery, particularly at the Sublime Porte, the capital court.  The royal advisers for a long time came from the highly regarded Koprulu family, but they could not prevent the decline that included the treaties of Jassy and Bucharest and a revolt by one of the provincial governors, Muhammad Ali.  Its greatest victories, at sites like Nikopol came under great leaders like Murad I and Suleiman the Magnificent.  FTP, name this empire founded in the 13th-century in modern day Turkey.
Some of its highest posts were held under foreigners known as Phanariots.  
Ottoman Empire