Ottoman Empire

Period: 1299 - 1922 (623 Years)
Founded By: Osman Bey
Area Covered: Algeria, Tunusia, Libya, Egypt, S. Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Anatolia (Today's Turkey), Caucasus, Crimea, Hungary, Moldova, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, ve many islands of Mediterranean Sea (20,000,000 sq.kms./7,722,044 Sq.miles). Additionally, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea and Sea of Marmara were inner seas of the Ottoman Empire.

Emperors:
Osman I (Osman Gazi, Osman Bey, Victor Osman Bey (1299 - 1326) Orhan (Orhan Bey) Victor (1326 - 1360)
Murad I (In Turkish History Murat Hüdavendigar=Creator of the World, Gazi=Victor, Hünkar=Sultan) (1360 - 1389)
Bayezid I (Yıldırım=Thunderbolt) (1389 - 1402)
Mehmed I (Çelebi=Gentleman Mehmed) (1413 - 1421)
Murad II (1421 - 1444 and 1446 - 1451)
Fatih Sultan Mehmed II (The Conqueror) (1444 - 1446 and 1451 - 1481)
Bayezid II (1481 - 1512)
Yavuz Sultan Selim I (The Grim) (1512 - 1520)
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman I (The Lawgiver, The Magnificient)(1520 - 1566)
Selim II (1566 - 1574)
Murad III (1574 - 1595)
Mehmed III (1595 - 1603)
Ahmed I (1603 - 1617)
Mustafa I (1617 - 1618)
Sultan Osman I (The Young) (1618 - 1622)
Mustafa II (1622 - 1623)
Murat IV (1623 - 1640)
Sultan İbrahim (1640 - 1648)
Sultan Mehmed IV (The Hunter) (1648 - 1687)
Süleyman II (1687 - 1691)
Ahmed II (1691 - 1695)
Mustafa II (1695 - 1703)
Ahmed III (1703 - 1730)
Mahmud I (1730 - 1754)
Osman III (1754 - 1757)
Mustafa III (1754 - 1774)
Abdülhamid I (1774 - 1789)
Selim III (The Blond) (1789 - 1807)
Mustafa IV (1807 - 1808)
Mahmud II (1808 -1839)
Abdülmecid (1839 - 1861)
Abdülaziz (1861 - 1876)
Murad V(1876)
Abdülhamid II(1876 - 1909)
Mehmed Reşad V (1909 - 1918)
Sultan Mehmed Vahideddin VI (1918 - 1922)

: 03 July 2004 / 20:00 GMT