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1361 BCE
Adrinople
The Ottomans capture Adrinople, in north-west Turkey: it becomes there next capitall -
1354 BCE
Gallipoli
The Ottomans cross the DarDanelles and capture the Gallipoli poninsula -
1326 BCE
Bursa
The city of Bursa in Anatolia becomes the first Ottoman capital -
1299 BCE
Osman the 1st founded the Ottoman Empire
Osman 1 declared independence from the Turkish tribes in Anatolia (the region south of the lack Sea).His tribal group become known as the Osmanli Turks, or 'Ottomans' in English
