Osman Gazi I founder of the Ottoman Empire defeated Byzantines at Bapheon, sorrounded Bursa and laid stage for its fall.
Orhan Gazi I son of Osman, seized Bursa made capital, seized Uskudar and Izmit, took Terzympe and secured Galliopoli and got Ottoman first toehold in Europe
Murad I the God-Like One greatly expanded Ottoman lands in Balkans won a phyrric victory in battle of Kosovo Polje and died in battle by Serb treacherary but Lazar of Serbia also killed.
Bayezid I the Thunderbolt present at battle of Kosovo Polje brilliant, defeated and killed brother Yakub and started tradition of fractide ambitious, vast expansion of Ottoman lands in Balkans and Anatolia, crushed rebellions, expanded at Serb, Bulgarian and Wallachian expense defeated Karaman expanded in Anataloi against Beyliks. Defeated Crusade of Nicopolis. Undoing came when Timur the Great defeated him at Battle of Ankara in 1402 resulting in loss of Anatolia.
Mehmed I following the bloody Ottoman Interregum rose to power defeated his brothers and rebellions and outside invasion in the civil war and kept the Empire together and revived it and recovered some lost land.
Murad II continued to recover lost land in Balkans and Anatolia defeated Crusade of Varna, broke Hungrian power.
Mehmed II the Conqueror took Constantinople, defeated Venice, took Otranto in Italy, expanded in Anatolia defeated Uzun Hasan built great Ottoman navy, vassalized Crimean Khante, brought Wallachia and Moldovia under, established the Sultan as absoloute power, brought things under state control and codified the law of fractide.
Selim the Grim conquered Syria and Egypt and defeated Safavids took Tabriz, crushed Mamluks brought Mecca and Medina under his rule and truely made the Ottomans an Muslim Empire for the first time.
Sulyeman the Law Giver, the Magnificent does he need any explanation? Under him the Ottomans were a true world power of epic proportion. Hungary was crushed in the Battle of Mohcas, Vienna was seiged, Ottoman forces wintered in the French Riveria, Ottoman ships engaged the Portguese in India and as far as Malacca and Indoonesia, if there was a superpower at this time it was the Ottomans, and of course his law code. From the Meditterean, to North Africa, to Italy, his armies marched, he defeated the Safavids, reformed the administration and brought the Ottoman Empire to the zenith of its power and culture.
Murad IV Gazi fought against Persia took Mesoptamia, and Azerbaijan and proved to be a great commander. One of the last warrior Sultans personally lead army, cracked down on corruption. Second Seige of Vienna and all that
Mahmud II for his reforms and stuff which was one of the major reform attempts, effectively started modernization of the Ottomans and laid the ground for the Tanzimat institued military and administrative reforms.
Abdulmecid I actually implemented the Tanzimat.
Orhan Gazi I son of Osman, seized Bursa made capital, seized Uskudar and Izmit, took Terzympe and secured Galliopoli and got Ottoman first toehold in Europe
Murad I the God-Like One greatly expanded Ottoman lands in Balkans won a phyrric victory in battle of Kosovo Polje and died in battle by Serb treacherary but Lazar of Serbia also killed.
Bayezid I the Thunderbolt present at battle of Kosovo Polje brilliant, defeated and killed brother Yakub and started tradition of fractide ambitious, vast expansion of Ottoman lands in Balkans and Anatolia, crushed rebellions, expanded at Serb, Bulgarian and Wallachian expense defeated Karaman expanded in Anataloi against Beyliks. Defeated Crusade of Nicopolis. Undoing came when Timur the Great defeated him at Battle of Ankara in 1402 resulting in loss of Anatolia.
Mehmed I following the bloody Ottoman Interregum rose to power defeated his brothers and rebellions and outside invasion in the civil war and kept the Empire together and revived it and recovered some lost land.
Murad II continued to recover lost land in Balkans and Anatolia defeated Crusade of Varna, broke Hungrian power.
Mehmed II the Conqueror took Constantinople, defeated Venice, took Otranto in Italy, expanded in Anatolia defeated Uzun Hasan built great Ottoman navy, vassalized Crimean Khante, brought Wallachia and Moldovia under, established the Sultan as absoloute power, brought things under state control and codified the law of fractide.
Selim the Grim conquered Syria and Egypt and defeated Safavids took Tabriz, crushed Mamluks brought Mecca and Medina under his rule and truely made the Ottomans an Muslim Empire for the first time.
Sulyeman the Law Giver, the Magnificent does he need any explanation? Under him the Ottomans were a true world power of epic proportion. Hungary was crushed in the Battle of Mohcas, Vienna was seiged, Ottoman forces wintered in the French Riveria, Ottoman ships engaged the Portguese in India and as far as Malacca and Indoonesia, if there was a superpower at this time it was the Ottomans, and of course his law code. From the Meditterean, to North Africa, to Italy, his armies marched, he defeated the Safavids, reformed the administration and brought the Ottoman Empire to the zenith of its power and culture.
Murad IV Gazi fought against Persia took Mesoptamia, and Azerbaijan and proved to be a great commander. One of the last warrior Sultans personally lead army, cracked down on corruption. Second Seige of Vienna and all that
Mahmud II for his reforms and stuff which was one of the major reform attempts, effectively started modernization of the Ottomans and laid the ground for the Tanzimat institued military and administrative reforms.
Abdulmecid I actually implemented the Tanzimat.
