Named after its founder Osman Bey, the Ottomans were settled as a tribe in Sogut at the beginning of the great 600 hundred-year-old Empire. Was born around 1258, the son of Ertugrul Gazi. In 1284 the Anatolian Seldjuk Sultan recognised Osman Bey as chief of the tribe. At the same time Anatolian Seldjuks were in the decline period and could not resist the attacks of Ilhanlis, Cengis Khans sons in Iran. This tragic situation held the people and tribes in Anatolia in a very chaotic and unstable.

Turkish peoples, originally from the Altai mountain regions of. Northern Mongolia began to migrate eastward in the. 8th century into Central Asia and on to the Anatolian plains. In the 13th century the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum ruled what is now. Modern Turkey, was being destabilized by Mongol invasions . One of the smallest emirates in the Sultanate was the emirate of. Osman, which was the closest to the Byzantine Empire.

The Ottoman Empire like all great empires was declining. Towards the end of the 19. Century but towards its end it was occupied by Britain, with Ottomans unable to oust the British due to a corrupt bureaucracy and weak army. This blog deals with the different colonies the Ottomans still controlled in name between 1880 and the beginning of World War I. Natural Resources of Ottoman Empire.

History of the Ottoman Empire. The Sublime Ottoman State or the Ottoman or Turkish Empire as it was also popularly known as lasted from July 1299 to October 1923. The empire was also known in English as the Osmanic Empire, the Osmanian Empire or the Ottoman State. During the reign of this Empire, Constantinople was named as its capital city. The once upon a tim.

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