adjective
noun
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(formerly) a subject of the Ottoman Empire
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the Turkish language, esp as written in Arabic letters under the Ottoman Empire
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Etymology
Origin of Osmanli
C19: from Turkish, from Osman I
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The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those were the great days of Turkey, when the Osmanli was master of the East, and regarded himself as the master of the world.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
The town was captured by the Seljuk sultan, Alp Arslan, 1064, and by the Mongols, 1243, before passing to the Osmanli Turks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
He substantiates the account of the assassinations, and narrates how Baha Ullah was called before the Osmanli Court to answer on the charge of complicity in them.
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
To this branch belonged Osman, the son of Ortoghrul, and father of the Osmanli.
From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Needless to say, the Osmanlis themselves differed greatly from their imperial predecessors.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
The Osmanlis, had they possessed themselves of it, might well have let the latter be for a long time to come.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
Whatever the Osmanlis suffered during that war, it undoubtedly kept them in Constantinople.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Nevill Forbes
The industrious Greek population thrives under the rule of the Osmanlis.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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