Ottoman Empire (Alexander the Liberator)

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Ottoman Empire دولت عليه عثمانیه‎ Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿOsmānīye The Exalted Ottoman State
↓ c. 1299–1913 ↓
Flag Coat of arms
Motto دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet "The Eternal State"
Anthem (various) (during 1808–1913)
Location of Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire at its greatest extent in Europe, under Sultan Mehmed IV in late 17th century.
Capital		Söğüt (c. 1299–1335) Bursa (1335–1363) Edirne (1363–1453) Constantinople
Languages		Ottoman Turkish and many others
Religion		Sunni Islam Madhab: Hanafi Creed: Maturidi
Government		Absolute Monarchy
Sultan
-	c. 1299–1323/4	Osman I
-	1909–1913	Mehmed V
Grand Vizier
-	1320–1331	Alaeddin Pasha
-	1912–1913	Ahmed Muhtar Pasha
Caliph
-	1512–1520	Selim I
-	1909–1913	Mehmed V
Legislature		General Assembly
-	Upper House	Senate
-	Lower House	Chamber of Deputies
History
-	Established	c. 1299
-	Disestablished	1913
Preceded by Succeeded by Byzantine Empire Adal Sultanate Anatolian beyliks Sultanate of Rum Kingdom of Bosnia Second Bulgarian Empire Serbian Despotate Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia Mamluk Sultanate Hafsid dynasty Hospitallers of Tripolitania Kingdom of Tlemcen Empire of Trebizond Samtskhe atabegate Republic of Turkey Kingdom of Greece Caucasus Viceroyalty Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Revolutionary Serbia [[Albania]] Romania Mandatory Palestine Saudi Arabia First Syrian Republic Kuwait Mandatory Iraq Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen

The Ottoman Empire (Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿOsmānīye), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I. 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 with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror.