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(ottoman turkish: عثمان غازى ʿOsmān Ġāzī; or Osman Bey or Osman Alp)
(died 1323/4)
(sometimes transliterated archaically as othman)
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*’osman gazi’ was the leader of the ‘ottoman turks’ and the founder of the ‘ottoman dynasty’*
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(he and the dynasty bearing his name later established and ruled the nascent ‘ottoman empire’ (then known as the ‘ottoman beylik’ or ’emirate’))
(the ‘state’, while only a small principality during osman’s lifetime, transformed into a ‘world empire’ in the centuries after his death)
(it existed until shortly after the end of ‘world war I’)
(historians commonly mark the end date at the abolition of the ‘sultanate’ in ‘1922’, or the proclamation of the ‘republic of turkey’ in ‘1923’, or the abolition of the ‘caliphate’ in ‘1924’)
(due to the scarcity of historical sources dating from his lifetime, very little factual information is known about him)
(not a single written source survives from osman’s reign)
(the ‘ottomans’ did not record the history of osman’s life until the ’15th century’, more than a hundred years after his death)
(because of this, it is very challenging for historians to differentiate between ‘fact’ and ‘myth’ in the many stories told about him)
(one historian has even gone so far as to declare it ‘impossible’, describing the period of osman’s life as a “black hole”)
(according to later ‘ottoman tradition’, osman’s ancestors were descendants of the kayı tribe of “oghuz turks”)
(the ‘ottoman principality’ was just one of many ‘anatolian beyliks’ that emerged in the second half of the ’13th century’)
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(situated in the region of ‘bithynia’, osman’s principality was particularly well-placed to launch attacks on the vulnerable ‘byzantine empire’, which his descendants would eventually go on to conquer)
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