The Ottoman Turks were the subdivision of the Ottoman Muslim Millet that dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. Reliable information about the early history of the Ottomans is scarce. According to some sources (references needed), the leader (khan) of the Kayi tribe...

Account of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 ... Just 226 years later an Ottoman army--90,000 warriors--stood at the gates of Constantinople, capital of Byzantium,

Upon surrender of the city, the Turks undertook a brutal torture of the Venetian commander, Marcantonio Bragadin, that has remained one of the most brutal and bitterly remembered episodes in...

In 1396, Hungarian and French forces responding to a papal call for a crusade against the Ottoman Turks were crushed in battle at Nicopolis on the Danube River in Bulgaria.

Ottoman Turks: Glossar ... In 1396, Hungarian and French forces responding to a papal call for a crusade against the Ottoman Turks were crushed in battle at Nicopolis on the Danube River in Bulgaria.

From the chaotic conditions that prevailed throughout the Middle East, however, a new power emerged in Anatolia--that of the Ottoman Turks.

Even after the Mamluks were overthrown by the Ottoman Turks in 1517, they continued to act as governors and often seemed to hold more power than their masters.

The Turkish Ottoman Empire controlled most of the Middle East for almost six hundred years. Learn more about the Turks and their history in a lesson designed for middle school students. ... Time and Space

The Ottoman Turks (AD 1516 - 1917) ... To win over the Arabs, the conquering Turks declared themselves champions of Islam; and to prove their point Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520 - 1566) built

The Ottoman Empire arose out of the leftovers of the old Seljuk sultans of Anatolia (Turkey). Beginning in 1299 AD, one of these Seljuks, Osman, began to expand his kingdom.