Ruler · c. 1258 to 1324

Osman I

Founder of the Ottoman dynasty, which takes its name from him. He led a small frontier state in north-west Anatolia against the Byzantines.

At a glance

Lived: c. 1258 to 1324
Role: Ruler
Dynasty: Ottoman Sultans
Era: Three gunpowder empires
Chapter: 5. The Ottomans

Osman I's world

1683: Three gunpowder empires

Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453. Selim I conquered Egypt in 1517 and the caliphate passed to the Ottomans. Suleiman won at Mohacs in 1526, and a second siege of Vienna failed in 1683. Further east, Safavid Iran and the Mughals of India ruled at the same time.

See the 1683 map Read chapter 5

People of the same era

Babur Akbar Aurangzeb Alamgir Tipu Sultan Mehmed II, the Conqueror Selim I Suleiman the Magnificent Hayreddin Barbarossa

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