The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه, Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmâniyye, modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), historically known as the Ottoman Empire,
The first is a fictional portrait of Uthman
Artugrul Ghazi, the father of the first Uthman, dreamed of this great empire.
In 1299, Uthman I, the first of Turkish descent, took over northwestern Anatolia from the Seljuk Empire. Although at first Rome was loyal to the Seljuk Empire, Rome declared independence at the turn of the Seljuk Empire. And gradually established a large sultanate. He was also the son-in-law of the Seljuk dynasty and the first mother of Uthman, Halim Sultan, was a princess of the Seljuk Empire.
The first Ottoman to appear in the Ottoman map
With the conquest of the Balkans by Murad I, the Ottoman Empire became a multinational empire and claimed the caliphate. The Ottomans overthrew the Byzantine Empire in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Muhammad II. After the conquest of Hungary in 1526, large kingdoms were established in the Balkans of Europe.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, especially during the reign of Sultan Solomon I, the Ottoman Empire was a powerful multinational, multilingual empire, covering southeastern Europe, Russia in the north, the Black Sea, West Asia, the Caucasus, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.
At the beginning of the 16th century, the empire had 36 provinces and several loyal states. Some of these were later merged with the empire and the rest were given some degree of autonomy.
The Ottoman Empire has been the center of communication between East and West for more than six hundred years. But it has long lagged behind the Europeans in military terms. As a result of the continuous decline, the empire collapsed and became extinct after the First World War. Modern Turkey emerged as the new republic in Anatolia. The former parts of the empire in the Balkans and the Middle East emerged as about 49 new states.......