Murad I
Third Ottoman sultan (1362-1389) · Turkey · Historical Figures · Lived 1326 to 1389 · aged 62
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Something wrong?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.
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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.
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