Osman I
Biography
Osman Ghazi, frontier beylik on the Byzantine border, the dream of the tree from his navel covering the world. The ghazi warriors, the open society of merit, any man may rise. Bursa, Nicaea, the first cities. The dynasty he founded ruled 624 years, to 1922, one of the longest verifiable. The sword of Osman girded every sultan, the empire named for him, not the reverse, rare in history.
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