"Tanzimat" refers to the Ottoman movement to reform and reorganize the empire. capitulation of the Ottomans to European military control of Anatolia. acceptance of European control of Ottoman debts. active dissident organization that aimed to revolutionize Ottoman society. section of Istanbul controlled by European powers.

In the Ottoman Empire, a period of reform is known as the Tanzimât. This period of reform began in the year 1839 and came to an end in 1876 with the First Constitutional Era. This era began with the purpose of modernization and not of transforming the Ottoman empire. Various efforts were made to modernize the empire and to secure the territories of the empire from internal nationalist movement and external attacks.