It's also known that in 1522, in the Turkish city of Constantinople, which was the centre of the Ottoman Empire, the court physician approved its use as a medicine.

为人所知的是，在1522年，在土耳其的康士坦丁堡，这座城市是奥斯曼王朝的中心，法医证明了它可以作为一种药物使用。

The Empire of Austria-Hungary, for example, were rivals of the Russian Empire for control over the Balkans where the Ottoman Empire, the dominant regional power for many centuries, was in terminal decline.

例如，奥匈帝国是俄罗斯帝国争夺巴尔干地区控制权的竞争对手，而在该地区，几个世纪以来占据主导地位的奥斯曼帝国正在走向衰落。