Had Ertugrul Osman, the exiled heir to the Ottoman throne ... his legendary grandfather, Sultan Abdulhamit II, who reigned for 33 years in the empire's final decades. But dwelling in the past ...

The executioners of the Ottoman Empire were never noted for their mercy; just ask the teenage Sultan Osman II, who in May 1622 suffered an excruciating death by “compression of the testicles ...

A 16th-century portrait of Osman, the first sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Bridgeman Images Osman I, a leader of a nomadic Turkic tribe from Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), began conquering the ...

He was the last surviving grandson of an Ottoman sultan and was regarded ... He was a descendant of Osman I, the Anatolian ruler who established the Ottoman Empire. The empire, which grew to ...

Jem Duducu, author of "The Sultans" (Amberley Publishing ... What has any of this got to do with the Ottoman Empire? Enter Osman, a Seljuk Turk, the man who is seen as the founder of the empire ...

Ertugrul Osman, grandson of Sultan Abdulhamid II and heir to the ... author of "Lords of the Horizons," which tells the history of the Ottoman Empire, in an e-mail to CNN. "Osman himself was ...

Though accomplished as a painter, looking back on Osman Hamdi Bey as just ... Hamdi Bey was a key figure in redefining Ottoman art and establishing many of the empire’s cultural institutions.

How did the Empire come about? Did Sultans really have to ... Mongol conquests of the 13th century. Ottoman-era historians, however, preferred to depict Osman and his father Ertugrul as frontier ...

Corrupt, decadent, backward, perennially broke and plagued by rebellions, the Ottoman Empire shrank and fell inexorably apart over the course of two centuries before finally disappearing in 1922.

Karacahisar was the first castle conquered from the Byzantine Empire by Orhan’s father Osman Ghazi, the founder and first sultan of the Ottoman Empire, in 1288. As the archaeological excavations ...