The Ottoman Empire
God s shadow sultan selim his ottoman empire and the making of the modern world by alan mikhail.
The ottoman empire. Coming down to mexico s pacific shore one summer day in 1573 a merchant named pero ximénez. The empire then grew to include many areas in what is now present day europe. Osman s name in turn was the turkish form of the arabic name ʿuthmān عثمان. It was an empire inspired and sustained by islam and islamic institutions.
The word ottoman is a historical anglicisation of the name of osman i the founder of the empire and of the ruling house of osman also known as the ottoman dynasty. The ottoman empire was an imperial state that was founded in 1299 after growing out of the breakdown of several turkish tribes. The ottoman empire began at the very end of the 13th century with a series of raids from turkic warriors known as ghazis led by osman i a prince whose father ertugrul had established a power base in söğüt near bursa turkey osman and his warriors took advantage of a declining seljuq dynasty which had been severely weakened by the mongol invasions. In ottoman turkish the empire was referred to as devlet i ʿalīye yi ʿosmānīye دولت عليه عثمانیه literally the.
As a result when the war ended the division of territories of the ottoman empire was decided by the victors by.