Osman son Orkhan Biography

Expansion of the Ottoman state. An attack on Nicaea Battle of Dimbos Siege of the Bursa Prussian fortress in Bithynia Battle of Pelekanon with the Byzantines, June 10-11. The capture of Nikurm Nichastia conquest of the emirate Karasa capturing Gallipoli The capture of Ankara The capture of Didimotiho Orhan I - the son of Osman I, the second ruler of the Ottoman Emirate, back during the reign of his great father Osman I Orhan, played a significant role in the life of the growing Ottoman state.

He led the siege of the large Byzantine fortress of Bursa North-West Anatolia. In those days, the Ottoman army consisted of cavalry alone and practically did not have siege cars, without which the assault on a well-fortified city was simply impossible. But having learned the siege of the uncle of his father Dundar Bey, in the city of Orhan Gazi surrounded Bursa, settled the surroundings by the Turks and turned the local Christian residents into the slavery.

The city lasted 10 years and surrendered to the Turks only in G. by accepting power in the Ottoman Bayilik, Orhan transferred the capital of the state to Bursa by the Byzantine timber. The ambitious Orhan dreamed of making his new capital as a cultural center of the entire Muslim world: the Islamic Academy was opened and magnificent mosques were built at the Academy, students from Persia and distant Arabia came to study.

Orhan was the youngest of the sons of Osman I. Father made him his successor for exceptional talent for military art.

The eldest son of Osman, Alauddin, was fond of religion and sciences, according to legend, he abandoned the proposal of Orhan to share power in the state after the death of his father, but accepted his proposal to become the first great vizier. Orhan conducted the reform of the army, which previously consisted only of the irregular cavalry. The infantry corps was created, also under Orkhan young captives began to be turned to Islam, making warriors from them.

As with his father in the possession of Orhan in North-Western Anatolia, the Gazavat warriors continued to flock from all neighboring Turkish emirates for the war with Byzantium. The army of Orhan consisted of twenty -five thousand trained fighters. The Ottomans continued to occupy the Byzantine cities in Asia Minor. In the city of Izmit, he became the first harbor and shipyard of the nascent Turkish fleet.

Orhan gained access to Dardanellah, without a special struggle, adding the neighboring Bailey Karasa, weakened by numerous internecine wars. At the same time, the Ottomans were in the civil war in Byzantium - on the side of the future Emperor John VI Kantakuzin and sent 6 thousand soldiers to the Balkans to combat the current emperor John V Paleolog. Despite the alliance with the Greeks, the Orhan secretly negotiated with the Serbian tsar Stefan Dushan, who was counting on the help of the Turks in the capture of Constantinople.

However, this union was not destined to take place, since the Byzantines intercepted and killed the Turkish ambassadors, who were supposed to notify Stefan of the consent of the Ottoman ruler to provide him with support. At the same time, John VI often took Ottoman soldiers as mercenaries in wars with the Bulgarians and Serbs. Soon, as a result of the Thracian earthquake, the walls of the neighboring fortress Kallipol fell, which Suleiman did not fail immediately to occupy.

Soon the peninsula was populated by the Turks and became the first Ottoman territory in Europe. The loss of Gallipoli was the reason for the deposition of Emperor John Kantakuzin, whom subjects accused of the sale of Constantinople to the Turks. However, Emperor John V Paleolog, who became in the city He did not interfere with the further settlement of the Ottomans of Thrace, and when the son of Orkhan and Theodora, Khalil, was abducted by pirates, he besieged the Ottoman ruler besieged Focue, where the captive was held.

One of the many successes of Orkhan was the conquest of Ankara in the city of Orhan is considered the second of the three founders of the Ottoman Empire, it was with it that the insignificant Turkic tribe finally turned into a strong state with a combat -ready army. The military leaders of the same country and the era may also be interested in the main page:.