History of the Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire had begun as one of the small states inthe Turkish region. It had emerged in the regions of the AsiaMinor during the time of the breakdown of the empire and therule of the Seljuk Turks. It was at the same time that theOttoman Turks had begun to take in from the other states. Itwas during the reign of the Muhammad II (1451 - 1481), theyhad ended all the rule of all the remaining Turkish dynasties.
The earliest phase of the expansion of the Ottoman Empirehad begun during the rule of the Osman I. Orkhan, Murad Iand Beyazid I - all of these at the expense of the ByzantineEmpire along with Serbia and Bulgaria. The Ottoman Empire witnessed several moments of historicalimportance. It experienced both the rise as well as the fall ofthe same as the centuries passed by. The World War II hadrepresented quite a unique and exceptional event during whichthe experience of suffering in the war had become quitecommon.
The entire devastation of the cities along with theslaughtering of the civilians had simply abolished the distinctionbetween the rear as well as the front line. The World Warbecame more familiar and was accepted as the natural part ofthe social as well as that of the political life. The history of theOttoman Empire demonstrates the common experiences of theCentral, Western as well as the Southeast Europe and putsthem in perspective of the brutality shown by the Balkans.