![]() The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror. ![]() ![]() After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. 'The Sublime Ottoman State' Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti French: Empire ottoman) was an empire that controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. The Ottoman Empire ( / ˈ ɒ t ə m ə n/ Ottoman Turkish: دولت عليه عثمانيه Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿO smānīye, lit.
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