Hotmail
Messenger
My MSN
MSN Directory
 |
Picture | |
from | Encarta |  |
Osman |
||||||
 |
||||||
|
||||||
| The Turkish leader Osman is considered the founder of the Ottoman Empire. Beginning in the late 1200s, he consolidated a small kingdom from settlements on the fringe of the Byzantine Empire. After his death in 1324, his descendants continued to expand the kingdom until it became one of history’s most powerful empires. | ||||||
|
||||||
| Culver Pictures | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
| Appears in these articles: | ||||||
|
||||||
| Ottoman Empire; Middle Ages; Turkish Language; Osman; Turkey (country); Middle East | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Advertisement
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© 2008 Microsoft
  |