The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/; Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه‎ Devlet-i Aliyye-i Osmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey or Turkey, was an empire founded in 1299 by Oghuz Turks under Osman I in northwestern Anatolia. After conquests in the Balkans by Murad I between 1362 and 1389, the Ottoman sultanate was transformed into a transcontinental empire and claimant to the caliphate. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. COUNT 5
QSN1 The Ottoman Empire is also known as what three other names? ANS1 Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey or Turkey QSN2 When was the Ottoman empire founded? ANS2 1299 QSN3 Who founded the Ottoman empire? ANS3 Oghuz Turks QSN4 Where was the Ottoman empire founded? ANS4 northwestern Anatolia QSN5 Conquests by who began the transformation of the Ottoman sultanate into an Empire? ANS5 Murad I