Ottoman ruler, father of Osman I
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Fathered Osman I and ruled a frontier town in 13th-century Anatolia—basically the founding father of the Ottoman Empire before the empire was even a thing. Details about his actual life are fuzzy, but the legend stuck.
Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Ghazi was a 13th-century uch bey (marcher-lord), who was the father of Osman I. Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the leader of the Kayı tribe of the Oghuz Turks, which fled from western Central Asia to Anatolia to escape the Mongol conquests; but according to contemporary numinastic evidence, he was the son of Gündüz Alp. According to the legend, after the death of his father, Ertuğrul and his followers entered the service of the Sultanate of Rum, for which he was rewarded with dominion over the town of…
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