OSMAN

L, d. in Bithynia, 1259, d. 13: the founder of the Ottoman “5 oe 9,/ 1299, with a band of Tartars, he for er | the pa es of the mountains in the nor 0 | west of Asia Minor, and, reinforced im | robberae, cacaped slaves, and prison at | wrested several provinces from | '$) Bastern Roman Empire. The territ: T.| thus acquired formed the nucleus uy it which his succe ors built the Otton ‘| Empire, and in the course of a couple #@ centuries made themselves the f I. military power of Europe. rf) [s. 231]