The Ottoman Turks were a Oghuz Turkic ethnic group in Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio
Painting of Ottoman Turkish sipahis at the Battle of Vienna.
Ottoman miniature from 1579/1580 depicting Oghuz chieftain Osman I, who founded the House of Osman and the Ottoman Empire around 1299. Located at Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi in the city of Istanbul.
Anatolian beyliks were Turkish principalities in Anatolia governed by beys, the first of which were founded at the end of the 11th century. A second and more extensive period of establishment took pla
İsa Bey Mosque in Selçuk near İzmir, built by the Beylik of Aydınids in 1375.
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