Osman I

Full name
	Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Gündüz Alp; عثمان بن ارطغرل بن گندز الپ ; OR; Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Süleyman Shah; عثمان بن ارطغرل بن سلیمان شاہ

Osman I
Osman I
Gazi; Bey;
	An Ottoman miniature depicting Osman, c. 1580
Uch Bey of the Sultanate of Rum
	c. 1280 – c. 1299
Predecessor	Ertuğrul
Successor	Office disestablished
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
	c. 1299 – 1323/4
Predecessor	Office established
Successor	Orhan
Born	Unknown
Died	1323/4 (age 68–70); Bursa, Ottoman Beylik
Burial	Tomb of Osman Gazi, Osmangazi, Bursa Province, Turkey
Spouse	Malhun Hatun; Rabia Bala Hatun
Issue	Orhan I; Alaeddin Pasha; Others
Full name
Full name
	Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Gündüz Alp; عثمان بن ارطغرل بن گندز الپ ; OR; Osman bin Ertuğrul bin Süleyman Shah; عثمان بن ارطغرل بن سلیمان شاہ
Dynasty	Ottoman dynasty
Father	Ertuğrul
Mother	Unknown
Religion	Sunni Islam (Hanafi)

Osman I or Osman Gazi (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان غازىcode: ota is deprecated ; Turkish: I. Osmancode: tr is deprecated or Osman Gazi; died 1323/4)^[4]^[1]^[a] was the founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as the Ottoman Beylik or Emirate). While initially a small Turkoman^[5] principality during Osman's lifetime, his beylik transformed into a world empire in the centuries after his death.^[6] It existed until shortly after the end of World War I.

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Osman I Media

16th-century depiction of Otomano P[rim]o (Osman I) by Paolo Veronese
Ertuğrul's türbe (tomb) in Söğüt
Index of Behcetü't-Tevârîh, one of the Ottoman sources that talks about Osman's origins
Osman's genealogy according to different Ottoman historians
19th-century depiction of Osman, by Konstantin Kapıdağlı
Area of the Ottoman Beylik during the reign of Osman I
A map of independent Turkic beyliks in Anatolia during the 14th century, showing the neighbouring Ottoman and Germiyanid beyliks
The first Ottoman coin by Osman Gazi Bey, the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
A mehter war drum, similar to the one sent to Osman from the Seljuk Sultan
The declining Sultanate of Rûm, vassal of the Mongols, and the emerging beyliks, c. 1300

Notes

↑ Sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Kafadar, Cemal. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995). p. 16.
↑ Akgündüz, Ahmed. Ottoman History – Misperceptions and Truths (in en) (2011)IUR Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-90-90-26108-9. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
↑ Lowry, Heath W.. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (2003). Albany: SUNY Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7914-8726-6.
↑ Kermeli, Eugenia. Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (2009). p. 444.
↑ Osman I (18 May 2023). Osman I, also called Osman Gazi, (born c. 1258—died 1324 or 1326), ruler of a Turkmen principality in northwestern Anatolia who is regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state.
↑ The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1999, Donald Quataert, page 4, 2005

[5] Sometimes transliterated archaically as Othman.

[death-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Kafadar, Cemal. Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State (1995). p. 16.

[2] Akgündüz, Ahmed. Ottoman History – Misperceptions and Truths (in en) (2011)IUR Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-90-90-26108-9. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

[Lowry-3] Lowry, Heath W.. The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (2003). Albany: SUNY Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7914-8726-6.

[birth-4] Kermeli, Eugenia. Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire (2009). p. 444.

[6] Osman I (18 May 2023). Osman I, also called Osman Gazi, (born c. 1258—died 1324 or 1326), ruler of a Turkmen principality in northwestern Anatolia who is regarded as the founder of the Ottoman Turkish state.

[7] The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1999, Donald Quataert, page 4, 2005

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