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A map of the territorial expansion of the Ottoman Empire from 1307 to 1683. This article provides a timeline of the Ottoman Empire. This timeline is incomplete; some important events may be missing. Please help add to it.
Timeline of important events in the history of the Ottoman Empire. Created by Turkish tribes in Anatolia (Asia Minor), the empire grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. The Ottoman period spanned more than 600 years and came to an end in 1922.
Ottoman Empire, empire created by Turkish tribes that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its dynasty was founded by a prince (bey), Osman, after the Mongols defeated the Seljuqs at the end of the 13th century.
The Ottoman Empire, [k] also called the Turkish Empire, [25][26] was an imperial realm [l] that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. [27][28][29]
The Ottoman Empire was founded c. 1299 by Osman I as a small beylik in northwestern Asia Minor just south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. In 1326, the Ottomans captured nearby Bursa, cutting off Asia Minor from Byzantine control.
Explore the timline of Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultanate (1299-1922 as an empire; 1922-1924 as caliphate only), also referred to as the Ottoman Empire, written in Turkish as Osmanlı Devleti, was a Turkic imperial state that was conceived...
Read about the major events that marked the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, one of the world’s greatest empires, which struck a heavy blow to the Eastern Roman Empire headquartered in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey).