The empire emerged from a beylik, or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in c. 1299 by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire.

Ottoman Empire, empire created by Turkish tribes that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its dynasty was founded by a prince (bey), Osman, after the Mongols defeated the Seljuqs at the end of the 13th century.

As Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople (today named Istanbul) in 1453, transforming it into the new Ottoman capital, the state grew into a substantial empire, expanding deep into Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East.

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, gücünün doruğunda olduğu 16 ve 17. yüzyıllarda Avrupa, Asya ve Afrika 'nın bazı bölgelerine yayıldı ve Balkanlar, Orta Doğu, Kuzey Afrika 'nın bir bölümü ve Doğu Avrupa 'nın küçük bir bölümünü egemenliği altında tuttu.

The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived by and named after Osman (l. 1258-1326), an Anatolian chieftain.

The Ottoman Empire was one of the mightiest and longest-lasting dynasties in world history. This Islamic-run superpower ruled large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa for...

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The Ottoman Empire, which lasted over 600 years, was a powerful Islamic empire with a lasting legacy across Europe, Asia, and Africa.

The Ottoman Empire existed for more than six centuries, from roughly 1299 — the traditional date for the founding of Osman I's beylik — until 1922. At its peak it spanned south-eastern Europe, western Asia and North Africa.

The continuing effort to pay and equip the army and to train its officers and other specialized personnel in a sustained, but ultimately vain, attempt to keep pace with the European powers stimulated reform of the political and economic institutions of the Ottoman Empire.