Osman I

Osman I or Osman Gazi (;  or Osman Gazi; died 1323/4) was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Beylik or Emirate). While initially a small Turkoman Osman I, also called Osman Gazi, (born c. 1258—died 1324 or 1326), ruler of a Turkmen principality in northwestern Anatolia who is regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state. principality during Osman's lifetime, his beylik transformed into a world empire in the centuries after his death.The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1999, Donald Quataert, page 4, 2005 It existed until shortly after the end of World War I.

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