Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (/'at@m@n/; Ottoman Turkish: dawlati `aliyWh' `uthmaniyWh Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanli Imparatorlugu or Osmanli Devleti), also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey or Turkey, was an empire founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia. After conquests in the Balkans by Murad I between 1362 and 1389, the Ottoman sultanate was transformed into a transcontinental empire and claimant to the caliphate. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.
When was the Ottoman empire founded?
1299
The Ottoman Empire (/'at@m@n/; Ottoman Turkish: dawlati `aliyWh' `uthmaniyWh Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmaniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanli Imparatorlugu or Osmanli Devleti), also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey or Turkey, was an empire founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia.
Ottoman Empire