One of these beyliks, bordering the Orthodox Christian Byzantine Empire, was led by Osman I.
Osman's tiny state would gradually expand over the next two hundred years to become one of the world's great empires, known to posterity as the Ottoman (Osmanli) Empire, after their first leader. Field of Glory II: Medieval - Sublime Porte DLC Steam CD Key. At first the Ottomans ba.At the end of the thirteenth century, with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in terminal decline, Anatolia was divided into several small independent Turkish principalities, called beyliks.