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OSMAN (`UsMAN)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 351 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OSMAN (`UsMAN)  , the usual See also:form of the Arabic name `OTxMax, as representing the See also:Turkish and See also:Persian See also:pronunciation of the name . It is used, therefore, for (r) the founder of the Osmanli or See also:Ottoman See also:dynasty, See also:Osman I., who took the See also:title. of See also:sultan, ruled in See also:Asia See also:Minor, and died in 1326, and (2) the sixteenth sultan Osman II., who reigned 1616-1621 (see See also:TURKEY: See also:History) . For the third See also:Mahommedan See also:caliph see OTIIMAN and See also:CALIPHATE .

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