{"id":15115,"date":"2022-05-29T06:11:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kayifamilytv.com\/?p=15115"},"modified":"2022-05-29T06:11:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:11:46","slug":"who-is-osman-bey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/v18\/who-is-osman-bey\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS OSMAN BEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHO IS OSMAN BEY IN HISTROY?<\/p>\n<p>Osman G\u00e2zi (1299 &#8211; 1324) <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because the one with the fear of Allah, the Creator, has no fear of the created.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2013 Osman G\u00e2zi H\u00e2n <\/p>\n<p>By Melisa Dirilish<\/p>\n<p>Osman Bey, the first Ottoman Sultan who ruled for 45 years, the founder of the Empire and the dynasty that were named after him, was also known by the names of: Kara Osman, Fahruddin and Muin\u00fcddin.<br \/>\nHis life, although much shorter than his father\u2019s, since he passed away aged 67 [the exact age of Ertu\u011frul Gazi when Osman was born], has been an extraordinary one, marked with many achievements and which inspired many legends.<\/p>\n<p>Osman descended from the Kay\u0131 tribe of the Boz-Oklar branch of the O\u011fuz Turks, to which his father Ertu\u011frul Gazi also belonged, and from which the future Ottomans will emerge. While, his mother Halime Sultan has descended from the K\u0131n\u0131k, the \u00dc\u00e7-Oklar branch of O\u011fuz Turks, from which the Seljuks originated. That claim later became part of the official Ottoman genealogy and it was eventually incorporated into the Turkish nationalist historical tradition.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8052133319358801\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8052133319358801\" data-ad-slot=\"6152077868\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Osman Bey was born in 1258 in S\u00f6\u011f\u00fct or Osmanc\u0131k. He came very late into Ertu\u011frul\u2019s and Halime&#8217;s life. When he was born, Ertu\u011frul Gazi was about 67 years old, and because Halime Sultan was also older, at an age when women no longer give birth, Osman was considered to be a miracle sent by Allah.<\/p>\n<p>Osman&#8217;s birth coincided with a time when &#8220;the world of declining empires&#8221; was desperate for a new leader.<\/p>\n<p>He was only 23 years old when in 1281, upon the death of Ertu\u011frul Gazi, he took over the leadership of Kay\u0131 Boyu {clan} and the principality of S\u00f6g\u00fct, what was then known as the province of Bithynia. <\/p>\n<p>And, from then on, &#8220;the roots of the Platanus tree (\u00c7\u0131nar) that rose from Osman&#8217;s chest, and whose majestic branches would extend across the seas and the lands, the continents and states, began to spread in the soil. So much so that, all humanity lived under the shadow of this Platanus for six centuries, in a way that they couldn&#8217;t have even imagined seeing it once again after the age of Bliss (Asr-\u0131 Sa\u00e2detten).&#8221; [Prof. Dr. Ahmet \u015eim\u015firgil, \u201cthe Kayi XI\u201d; the citation translated by Melisa Dirilish]<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8052133319358801\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8052133319358801\" data-ad-slot=\"6152077868\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>With many conquests he carried out, he extended his territory in a short time, and gradually turned it into an independent principality, then into an independent state.<\/p>\n<p>Firmly controlling the region around the town of S\u00f6\u011f\u00fct, he launched his raids from there and waged a slow and persistent war against the neighbouring Byzantine Empire. Osman appears to have followed a strategy of increasing his territories at the expense of the Byzantines, while at the same time he avoided conflicts with his more powerful Turkmen neighbours, until his State become strong enough to deal with them too. <\/p>\n<p>He extended his lands from Marmara coast in the north, to the mouth of Sakarya River and Kutahya in the south. These boundaries included S\u00f6\u011f\u00fct, Karacahisar, Yarhis\u00e2r, Eski\u015fehir, Harmankaya, Ineg\u00f6l.<br \/>\nIn the years preceding the conquest of Karacahisar fortress, Osman suffered two great private loses which caused him a great grief. His young nephew, Bey Hoca, the son of his brother Savci, was martyred in 1285 in the ambush during the Ermeni Beli battle, and sometime later his brother Savci also died in the struggle before the conquest of Karacahisar. [Kem\u00e2lPa\u015fa-z\u00e2de Tarihi]<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8052133319358801\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8052133319358801\" data-ad-slot=\"6152077868\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>After he conquered Karacahisar, Yarhisar and Bilecik, he transferred the centre of the Beylik to Bilecik. Years later, in 1301, he founded town of Yeni\u015fehir near Bursa and transferred the Sultanate\u2019s headquarters there. <\/p>\n<p>He then gave the governing of the Eski\u015fehir to his brother G\u00fcnd\u00fcz Bey, of town of Sult\u00e2n\u00f6n\u00fc to his son Orhan Bey, Yarhis\u00e2r to Hasan Alp, Bilecik to Sheikh Edebali and Ineg\u00f6l to Turgut Alp, and took Edebali&#8217;s grandson Ala&#8217;addin (his son) with him.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, he continued to increase his territories, and as per today\u2019s M\u00fclk\u00ee Taksimat (state\u2019s office assets records), the lands of Osmanli domain [Osmano\u011fullar\u0131\u2019n\u0131n \u00fclkesi] at the time of Osman Khan\u2019s death covered the districts of Bilecik, Eski\u015fehir (administrative centre), Sarkaya with the attached Geyve, Akyaz\u0131 and Hendek, K\u00fctahya-Domanic and the province of Bursa, encompassing districts of Mudanya (including the port), Yenisar and Ineg\u00f6l. [Prof. Dr. A. \u015eim\u015firgil, &#8211; Osm\u00e2n G\u00e2z\u00ee H\u00e2n\u2019\u0131n \u015eahsiyeti]<\/p>\n<p>When the Seljuk State was brought to an end by the Ilkhanid\u2019s ruler Ahmad Ghazan in 1308, the Osman&#8217;s Principality became completely detached.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8052133319358801\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8052133319358801\" data-ad-slot=\"6152077868\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>During his amazing life, Osman Gazi has been addressed by the titles of Emir and Bey. And, at his death he was titled Khan and Sultan, the 1st Sultan of Ottomans. Because, by the end of his life he had become The Bey of Principality, in his own right. <\/p>\n<p>He first became a semi-independent governor, when the Seljuk Sultan G\u0131yaseddin Mes\u016bd II recognised his rule in 1284, and sent him an envoy with a Mehterhane (military band), the Tu\u011f (the Tugh &#8211; symbol of duty, office and sovereignty) and a Sancak (Sancak\/Sanjak \u2013 a military flag) as a gift, and also his decree that S\u00f6\u011f\u00fct and its environs were allocated to him.  [Tev\u00e2r\u00eeh-i \u00c2l-i Osm\u00e2n]<\/p>\n<p>The first legitimation of Osman&#8217;s rule on the part of the Seljuk Sultan, happened during the siege of Karachahisar, when the next Seljuk Sultan Alaaddin Keykubad III, summoned him and said that he displays many signs of success [bliss], adding \u201cYou and your family are unique in their kind. My prayers, Allah\u2019s help, the Evliyaullah&#8217;s support [Allah&#8217;s aleem\/ulam\u0101&#8217;\/wise men] and Muhammed\u2019s miracles are with you\u201d. [\u00c2\u015f\u0131kpa\u015fa-z\u00e2de]<\/p>\n<p>And then, several years later, on 27 January 1300, Sultan Alaaddin Keykubad III sent him an edict, along with another Tu\u011f, Sancak and a drum (as the symbols of his sovereignty), by which Osman Bey became an independent Principality Bey.<br \/>\nAfter gaining his independency, he proceeded to mint his own coins (Akce) with the inscription \u201cMinted by Osman, son of Ertu\u011frul\u201d, and had Jummah prayers recited in his name only.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8052133319358801\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8052133319358801\" data-ad-slot=\"6152077868\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Osman&#8217;s last campaign, before dying, was against the Byzantines in the city of Bursa. He masterminded and put in motion the siege of Bursa, which would last for 9 years (1317-1326), and then he left the battlefield under the command of his son, Orhan.<br \/>\nHowever, since he was long suffering from Nikris (goutte) disease, his health deteriorated towards the end of the siege, and he passed away in February 1324, before seeing the fall of Bursa.<\/p>\n<p>He was buried temporarily in the graveyard next to Ertu\u011frul Gazi\u2019s tomb. But Osman last request addressed to his son on his deathbed was that Osman re-bury him in Bursa, after he conquers it. So, 2.5 years later his remains were taken from S\u00f6\u011f\u00fct and re-buried in in the old Eastern Roman chapel, known as &#8220;G\u00fcm\u00fc\u015fl\u00fc K\u00fcmbet&#8221;, in Bursa, in 1326. [Osmanl\u0131 Ara\u015ft\u0131rmalar\u0131 Vakf\u0131]<\/p>\n<p>With the conquest of Bursa, on April 6th 1326, which heralded the founding of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Turks have finally established themselves as the major power in Asia Minor. And Bursa, in later history recognized as the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire, became the new Ottoman capital until the conquest of Adrianople (today known as Edirne) in 1362, by Osman\u2019s grandson, Sultan Murad I.<\/p>\n<p>The physical and spiritual foundations of the State he left after his passing, were so strong that only 150 years later it would became a superpower and eventually one of the greatest world\u2019s Empires, which lasted for more than six centuries and spread across three continents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this smallest of unions (beyliks) among the Anatolian principalities, has made claim back then, that they would be the ones who would ensure the Turks&#8217; unity and that they would defeat many states in Europe and Asia and dominate in these regions, no one would have believe them, they would say: \u2018You are dreaming!\u2019. However, this distinguished Turk&#8217;s hero, surrounded by the Sufi masters, and backed by his Gazi-Alps and many valiants ready to sacrifice their lives for this cause, has believed in this and strived hard for this great birth.\u201d  [Prof. Dr. Ahmet \u015eim\u015firgil; Kay\u0131 XI; the citation translated by Melisa Dirilish]]<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8052133319358801\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8052133319358801\" data-ad-slot=\"6152077868\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The subject of Osman Gazi is really huge, with a lot of material to cover. It could not fit in just one or two articles, as can be seen from this one, so I will write it as a series of articles, as the show \u201cOsman, the Founder\u201d goes on.<br \/>\nAnd, as always, I won\u2019t use any of the foreign sources which are full of subjective information, but the Turkish sources and archives which are well documented and include more facts than legends.<\/p>\n<p>*****<br \/>\nBy Melisa Dirilish<br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2020 Melisa Dirilish (&#x2122;) All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gogetfunding.com\/thank-you-melisa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> SUPPORT MELISA DIRILISH TRANSLATION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melisa.dirilish.5\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melisa Dirilish<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2020 Melisa Dirilish (&#x2122;) All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kayifamilytv.com\/author\/melisa-dirilish\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK FOR MORE ARTICLES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO IS OSMAN BEY IN HISTROY? 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