biography
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| lived:
| (1258–1324)
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| biography:
| Founder of the Ottoman Turkish empire, born in Bithynia. The son of a border chief, he founded a small Turkish state in Asia Minor called Osmanli (Ottoman). On the overthrow of the Seljuk sultanate of Iconium in 1299 by the Mongols, he gradually subdued a great part of Asia Minor. |
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