Osman I

✶August 23, 1258

†August 1, 1326

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About their life

Osman I or Osman Ghazi was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire. While initially a small Turkoman principality during Osman's lifetime, his beylik transformed into a vast empire in the centuries after his death. It existed until 1922 shortly after the end of World War I, when the sultanate was abolished.

founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1323/4)

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