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Example photograph showing the swords of several Ottoman sultans in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Türkiye, 2007. The Sword of Osman (Ottoman Turkish: تقلیدِ سیف; Turkish: Osman'ın Kılıcı) [1] is an important sword of state that was used during the enthronement ceremony (Turkish: Kılıç alayı) of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire, from the accession of Murad II onwards. [2]
The practice started when Osman was girt with the sword of Islam by his father-in-law Sheik Edebali. [127] The girding of the sword of Osman was a vital ceremony which took place within two weeks of a sultan's accession to the throne. It was held at the tomb complex at Eyüp, on the Golden Horn waterway in the capital Constantinople. The fact ...
İnalcık, Halil (1994), "Osman Ghazi's Siege of Nicaea and the Battle of Bapheus", in Zachariadou, Elizabeth (ed.), The Ottoman Emirate (1300–1389). Halcyon Days in Crete I: A Symposium Held in Rethymnon, 11–13 January 1991 (PDF) , Crete University Press , ISBN 960-7309-58-8 , archived from the original (PDF) on 22 June 2010
Ertuğrul, the father of the Osman I (the founder of the empire), has a tomb in Söğüt. Although bearing his name, the museum building is not in the same quarter of Söğüt. [2] Originally the three-storey wooden building was an Ottoman dispensary built in the early 1900s. In 2001, after restoration, the building was opened as a museum.
Ottoman historian Ahmedi in his work explain the meaning of Ghazi: [13] A Ghazi is the instrument of the religion of Allah, a servant of God who purifies the earth from the filth of polytheism. The Ghazi is the sword of God, he is the protector and the refuge of the believers.
Osman II: 1618–1622 Mehmed IV: 1648–1687 Tomb of Turhan Sultan: Eminönü Fatlh, Istanbul Mustafa II: 1695–1703 Ahmed III: 1703–1730 Mahmud I: 1730–1754 Osman III: 1754–1757 Mustafa III: 1757–1773 Tomb of Mustafa III Laleli, Fatih, Istanbul Selim II: 1566–1574 Abdul Hamid I: 1773–1789 Tomb of Abdul Hamid I: Eminönü, Fatih ...
Osman then initiates a major battle with the Byzantines, with the support of Malhun Hatun which is historically known as the Battle of Domanic. She later marries Osman Bey after Osman is advised by Seh Edebali to marry another woman to get heir for his beylik and becomes pregnant soon after. She gives birth to Osman's first child Orhan.
List of the main battles in the history of the Ottoman Empire are shown below. The life span of the empire was more than six centuries, and the maximum territorial extent, at the zenith of its power in the second half of the 16th century, stretched from central Europe to the Persian Gulf and from the Caspian Sea to North Africa.