Ottoman Empire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
multiethnic empire with the monarchs from the Ottoman dynasty (1299–1922)
About Ottoman Empire
—Suleiman I 'the Magnificent' The Turks trace theirorigintoCentral Asia. Their current homeland in Anatolia (Asia Minor) has been home to many civilizations throughout history, includingAncient Greeceand theByzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire was not the first Turkish empire based in Anatolia, but it was certainly the most influential. The Ottoman Empire wasfoundedby Osman I, after whom the state is named, innorthwestern Anatoliain 1299, as one of the several Turkish petty kingdoms emerged after the collapse of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, the preceding Turkish empire, as a result of theMongolinvasion. Taking full advantage of its location on the borders of the Byzantine Empire that was much weakened by that time, the Ottoman state quicklygrew, crossing over to the European mainland by ta
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