WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Osman I, leader of the Turkic tribes of Anatolia, founded the Ottoman Empire around 1299.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ottoman Turks set up a formal government and expanded their territory under the leadership of Osman I, Orhan, Murad I and Bayezid I. In 1453, Mehmed II the Conqueror led the Ottoman Turks in seizing the ancient city of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire’s capital.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Empire. The political and geographical entity governed by the Muslim Ottoman Turks. Their empire was centered in present-day Turkey, and extended its influence into southeastern Europe as well as the Middle East.

Detailed explanation-4: -After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II, Ottoman sultans came to regard themselves as the successors of the Roman Empire, hence their occasional use of the titles caesar ( qayser) of Rûm, and emperor, as well as the caliph of Islam.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Ottoman Turks, named after the Turkish ruler, Osman I who founded the empire in 1299, began a rapid expansion into the territories of the erstwhile Byzantine Empire in the mid 14th century.