# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/murad-i
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:30:17.221Z

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name: "Murad I"
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description: "The Ottoman sultan who moved the empire's center of gravity into Europe. Murad I took Adrianople in the 1360s, made it his capital, and turned the Balkans into tributary ground — Serbia, Bulgaria, Byzantium itself bent to terms."
tagline: "Third Ottoman sultan (1362–1389)"
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birthDate: "1326-06-29"
deathDate: "1389-06-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Murad I took the throne in 1362 after his elder half-brother Süleyman Pasha died. Son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun, he inherited an empire still rooted in Anatolia. The conquest of Adrianople in the 1360s changed the map: he relocated the capital there and pushed deep into Southern Europe, bringing most of the Balkans under Ottoman control. The princes of Serbia, the emperor of Bulgaria, and Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos all paid him tribute. He split the sultanate into two provinces — Anatolia and Rumelia — formalizing the empire's dual geography. Murad I died on 15 June 1389, his reign spanning twenty-seven years and leaving the Ottomans planted on both sides of the straits.