Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300-1774Osprey Publishing Co.
David Nicolle
ISBN: 0850455111
price: $14.95
About this title The birth of the Ottoman state is shrouded in
legend. Whatever the truth of its origins, the Ottoman's formed
an Empire which almost succeeded in bringing Christian Europe to
its knees. During the last decades of the 13th century, the
ambitious Osman Bey's tiny mountain state took eight frontier
castles plus the Turkish town of Eskisehir. In 1299 Osman seized
Yenisehir after working up the Kara Su valley. With this as its
first real capital, the Ottoman state emerged into history poised
above the fertile shores of the Sea of Marmara.
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