The Ottoman Empire was a state and caliphate founded in 1300 by Osman I, the first leader of the Ottoman Empire and the founder of the Ottoman dynasty. It was founded in northwestern Anatolia and its first capital was Sogut.
In the beginning, The Ottoman state was a small principality, but, by the time prevailed as one of the biggest empires in the world.
It existed until the alternative proclamation of the Republic of Turkey in 1922.
