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The Ottoman Empire was a strong empire in the 1300s and 1400s. If you dont know what the otttomans were you will learn now. Expansions In their initial stages of expansion, the Ottomans were leaders of the Turkish warriors for the faith of Islam, known by the title Ghazi (arabic:raider), who fought against the shrinking Byzantine state. The ancestors of Osman 1 ( the founder of the dynasty ), were members of the Kayi tribe of Turkmen. Those nomads, fleeing from the mongols of Genghis Khan, established themselves as the Seljuq dynasty in Iran and Mesopotamia. Osman 1 Osman emerged as prince of the border principality that took over Byzantine, Bithynia in northwestern Anatolia around Bursa, commanding the Ghazis against the Byzantines in that area. Hemmed in on the east by the more powerful