User:Muhammad Mursaleen Khan (27-May-1995)

The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/; (Ottoman language:|دولت عليه عثمانیه), Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿOsmānīye; literally The Supreme Ottoman State) was a Persianate[8][9][10][11] empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman.[12] It also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire,[13] or Ottoman Turkey.[14][15]After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire (known to the Ottomans as the Roman Empire) with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Muhammad Mursaleen Khan the Conqueror.[16]