Osman I
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Osman I was a Turkish military leader who founded the Ottoman Empire in the early 14th century and ruled until his death around 1323 or 1324. His establishment of this empire matters because the Ottoman state went on to become one of history's largest and most influential empires, eventually controlling territories across Europe, Asia, and Africa for several centuries.
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DynastyOttoman dynasty FatherErtuğrul MotherUnknown ReligionSunni Islam
Osman I or Osman Ghazi (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان غازى, romanized: ʿOsmān Ġāzī; Turkish: I. Osman or Osman Gazi; died 1323/4) was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a beylik or emirate). 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.