Jordan - History - The Ottoman Empire

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Ottoman Empire, empire created by Turkish tribes that grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world in the 15th and 16th centuries german empire The Ottoman Empire was founded c 1299 by Osman I as a small beylik in northwestern Asia Minor just south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople