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Ottoman Dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ottoman Turks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ottoman Turks were the subdivision of the Ottoman Muslim Millet that dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. Reliable information about the early history of the Ottomans is scarce. Acc...
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Founder of the Ottoman dynasty. His date of birth is unknown, but he was active from about 1300 to about 1325 and died in about 1326. By 1308 Osman controlled western Anatolia, having pushed the Byzantines back to the vicinity of Nicaea.
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OTTOMAN DYNASTY. Osman I, the eponymous founder of the Ottoman dynasty, established a state in northwestern Anatolia in the late thirteenth century and was, according to later tradition, invested by the Seljuk sultan.
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The Ottoman dynasty is known in Turkish as Osmanlı, meaning "House of Osman". The first rulers of the dynasty never had called themselves sultans, but rather beys, or "chieftain", roughly the Turkic equivalent of Emir, which would itself become a gubernatorial title and even a common military or honorific rank.
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From the /th/ becoming a /t/, as it does in Italian or Modern Arabic, we get "Ottoman," henceforth the name of the dynasty of Osman -- otherwise Osmanli.
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