How and where did the Ottoman Empire originate? (1299-1389) | DOCUMENTARY

In 1221 on the plains of current-day Turkmenistan lay the city of Merv. The town faced a Mongol besiegement under one of Genghis Khan’s sons and opened its gates in the hopes of experiencing mercy. Instead, one of the bloodiest genocides in world history followed, with approximately a million casualties. The leader of a nearby Orghuz-Turkic clan, Ertugrul, heard of these atrocities and decided to leave the region. Arriving in the declining Seljuk Empire, the Seljuk Sultan at Konya gave him a piece of land near Sogut in exchange for his service. Nobody could have foreseen it, but this band of refugees would establish the mighty Ottoman Empire.
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Chroniclers describe how in the early 14th century, under Osman Gazi, groups of Turkic nomadic warriors accumulated around the city of Sogut. They were one of many, often Islamic, Turkic tribes to settle on the peninsula. The strongest actors surely were the decaying Byzantine Empire, the Rum Sultanate and the Mongol Ilkhanate. Smaller beyliks such as the Teke, Aydinids, Hamidids, Sarukhandids, Karamanids and Germiyanids all lay lodged between these states. Nothing yet gave away that a beylik of equal size and equal mediocrity, the beylik of Osman, would grow to be one of the strongest Empires the world has ever seen.
Osman first pops up in historical sources in descriptions of the 1301 Battle of Bapheus, fought between him and the Byzantines. He emerged victorious, with the most significant gain being that his beylik became an independent political unit. He subsequently conquered fortresses in the region, cutting the connection between Bursa and Iznik, leaving them only able to communicate via small seaports. His victories made Osman famous and his name travelled far and wide, attracting nomadic warriors from all over the peninsula.
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Sources:
Faroqhi, Suraiya. The Ottoman Empire and the world around it. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004.
Faroqhi, Suraiya N., and Kate Fleet, eds. The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 2, The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Finkel, Caroline. Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Hachette UK, 2007.
Goffman, Daniel. The Ottoman empire and early modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Turnbull, Stephen. The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
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[@ragael1024]

Wow. Competence with sweet opportunity vs larger but disorganized political structures. Thank you, my dear ottomans, for you have given me the taste for conquest in EU4, rather than starting as a huge empire, by starting small, and expanding in all directions. What an amazing empire you have been, similar to how Rome once grew, so did you.

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Video about the Savoyard crusade?

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the beginning is a delicate time...

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[@HoH]

What do you mean?

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Can u plz give the name of the battle between Orhan and the Mongol illkhanate

[@vangelisskia214]

"There was the ruling Ottoman group, now largely concentrated in the bureaucracy centered on the Sublime Porte, and the mass of the people, mostly peasants. The efendi looked down on "the Turk," which was a term of opprobrium indicating boorishness, and preferred to think of himself as an Osmanli. His country was not Turkey, but the Ottoman State. His language was also "Ottoman"; though he might also call it "Turkish," in such a case he distinguished it from kaba türkçe, or coarse Turkish, the common speech. His writing included a minimum of Turkish words, except for particles and auxiliary verbs." Davison, Roderic H. (31 December 1964). Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1856-1876.

[@vangelisskia214]

"By the seventeenth century, literate circles in Istanbul would not call themselves Turks, and often, in phrases such as 'senseless Turks', used the word as a term of abuse." Imber, Colin (2009). The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650: The Structure of Power (2 ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 3.

[@gerardvdelshout]

Great stuff, but its probably best to use sieges as opposed to besiegements. Sounds a lot better if you are from our country ;)

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8:16 what is the soundtrack name?

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No man's sky

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[@vangelisskia214]

"The scholarly community specializing in Ottoman studies has of late virtually banned the use of "Turkey", "Turks", and "Turkish" from acceptable vocabulary, declaring "Ottoman" and its expanded use mandatory and permitting its "Turkish" rival only in linguistic and philological contexts." Soucek, Svat (2015). Ottoman Maritime Wars, 1416-1700. Istanbul: The Isis Press. p. 8.

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Why

[@HistoriaenCeluloide]

You made a series of videos about the worst fathers in history (the prussians fathers) Would you make a video about the "institutionalized fratricide" (Cainism) in the Ottoman Empire? 🧐

[@HoH]

It is not something I am planning to do soon, but the fratricide will certainly feature in the upcoming videos about the Ottomans!

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@@HoH It's amazing how the rivalry between brother was so common among royals: Romulo and Remo, Cyrus and Artaxerxes, Geta and Caracalla, Alfonso VI and Sancho II, Huascar and Atahualpa

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@@HistoriaenCeluloide And Vlad Dracula and Radu the Handsome - who I happen to be writing about right now!

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Lala Pasha's victory was epic 800 ottoman horseman destroyed a 20,000 serb force at Maritsa

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I always find it annoying that Byzantium basically fell because the Europeans were too busy fighting amongst themselves.

[@HoH]

The Ottomans really did manage to use the circumstances to their advantage in the most extreme way.

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@@HoH not true at all. the Ottomans defeated the west multiple times and defeated the cursaders multiple times. They literally didn't know about the politics of Europe and only asked for tribute or war. if they knew what is happening in Europe than they would have taken so much benefit in the 30 years war and naplionic wars.....etc.

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[@alphalunamare]

There is no mention of The Mongols giving Osman grief. Current Turkish pop Drama has them as the major threat whilst Byzantium are a constant running sore. Is the drama, although fictional as it has to be, totally wrong in this respect?

[@OljeiKhan]

I couldn't understand your question , what do you mean by giving grief? The TRT shows about the Ottomans are extreme fanfiction , they are only there to pump up uneducated AKP voting masses with unfounded nationalism.

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@@OljeiKhan Thank you for your answer. It's what I was looking for and already suspected but didn't really know. :-)

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@@alphalunamare dude the show is for drama nearly everything in it is fake osman at the beggening was nothing more than seljuk Vassal

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Ottomans and other turk people come from central asia. Their origin is not in anatolia.

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Its a short documentary similar too History Matters

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