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Издательство: Turkish CTO

Автор: коллектив

Страниц: 50

Формат: PDF OCR

Размер: 10 Мб

Язык: Английский

Год издания: 2014

At the peak of its military success, the great Ottoman Empire spanned three continents, stretching from Budapest to Azerbaijan and taking in Persia, Syria and the whole of the north African coast. It began, however, from relatively humble eginnings with Osman Bey, the leaderofasmallprincipalityin northwest Anatolia, who gave the Empire its Turkish name, Osmanlı (with Osman). His first military conquests began in 1299 with theconquestofBilecik,Yenikent,İnegöland İznik. He resolved to take Bursa, and after a siege, which lasted some eight years, his son, Orhan,finallytookthecityin1326and,in 1335, made the city his capital.