The Ottoman Empire was a powerful empire that spanned across three continents.

Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Israel



The countries listed are Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and Albania. Romania, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, and Hungary.

Once an empire spread over territories. And this empire was called the The topic is the Ottoman Empire.


How did this empire spread over three continents and six centuries come into existence, how did it become the world's superpower?


And then how did it spread so much that even finding its story today is a task.


In the brand new series of Man Hoon Faisal Waraich and Dekho Suno Jano, Sultanate of Osmaniya, we will show you the first part of the story of this great empire, "Seeds of Dreams".


Can you provide information on how the Turkish Horsemen were able to capture Anatolia in its entirety?

This is present-day Turkey, but thousands of years ago this region was called Anatolia.


To its east, the Seljuk Empire ruled here. These Seljuqs belonged to the Turkic race.


While this entire area was in the possession of the Romans. The Roman Empire extended to Anatolia and the eastern regions of Europe with this fort as its center. Which was called Constantinople or Constantine Tenopole.


But today it is known as Zaman Istanbul.


This Roman Empire was called Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire.


There is a very beautiful lake here in the same region of Anatolia. This lake is called Wan.


It is said that in this lake there lives a monster with a mixed shape of a crocodile and a fish.


It is not known whether or not, but the view of the lake is beautiful.


On its banks, visit this beautiful historic church with a sacred story from the Bible carved on its walls.


On this side of the same lake, a thousand years ago an apparently brief but history-changing battle took place.


A grand ceremony is held here every year in August to commemorate this historic battle.


This event is so important that the Turkish President also attends it.


The ceremony features a game in which Turkish horsemen gallop without holding the reins and, from the galloping horse, turn their necks and shoot arrows backwards.


It is a game today, but nine hundred and forty-eight years ago, their forefathers did the same and wrested this entire area from the Romans.


What happened was that in the 11th century AD, there were wars between the Seljuks and the Romans for control of Anatolia.

Roman Emperor Romulus vs the Turkish

But basically this area was part of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire.


The Roman Empire built a long line of forts along its border, which served as border posts, to stop the Turks.


And the military forces in these forts used to fight the invaders. But these attacks had increased so much that it was no longer a matter of the border forts to stop them.


So the Roman Emperor Romanus assembled a large army to permanently eliminate the Turkish threat.


The number of which was a little more than one lakh. When Romanus was preparing for war against the Seljuks