The Ottoman Empire

In 1453, the city of Constantinople , the capital of the Byzantine empire, was captured by the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II

The Ottoman Empire was founded by Osman I in 1299, uniting many of the independent states of Anatolia under one rule

ottoman Ottoman Empire definition: a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the

golden empire By October 1922, the nationalists forced the parallel government in Istanbul to resign The next month they abolished the Ottoman dynasty,