Osman I

Born

August 23, 1258

Died

August 1, 1326 (aged 67)

Known as

governor, sultan

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.

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