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The Ottomans capture Adrinople, in north-west Turkey: it becomes there next capitall
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The Ottomans cross the DarDanelles and capture the Gallipoli poninsula
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The city of Bursa in Anatolia becomes the first Ottoman capital
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Osman 1 declared independence from the Turkish tribes in Anatolia (the region south of the lack Sea).His tribal group become known as the Osmanli Turks, or 'Ottomans' in English
