The House of Osman: How One Family Ruled an Empire for 600 Years

For more than six hundred years, one family ruled an empire that stretched from the gates of Vienna to the Persian Gulf, and in that time it conquered Constantinople, governed Muslims, Christians, and Jews on three continents, and wrote the execution of its own princes into law. They began as a small band of horsemen on a muddy frontier. They ended with a last sultan slipping out of his capital at dawn aboard a British warship. From Osman's dream and the first victories at Bapheus, through Mehmed the Conqueror's fall of Constantinople, Suleiman the Magnificent and Hürrem, the cage and the Sultanate of Women, the Tulip Era, the reformers, Abdulhamid the Red Sultan, the Young Turks, and the First World War, to the abolition of the sultanate in 1922 and the caliphate in 1924, this is the story of a dynasty that built a world and could not stop its own rules from strangling it. In this documentary, you'll discover: • How a frontier chieftain's band of horsemen became the Ottoman state, from Bapheus in 1302 to Bursa and Gallipoli • What happened in the civil war after Timur crushed Bayezid at Ankara • How Mehmed the Second took Constantinople in 1453 and wrote the law of fratricide • Why Suleiman broke every custom of his house for a slave girl named Hürrem • How the devshirme, the millets, and the harem actually worked • What the cage was, and why the sultan Osman the Second was killed by his own Janissaries • How Mahmud the Second destroyed the Janissaries in 1826 and why the empire still went bankrupt • The reign of Abdulhamid, the Young Turk revolution, and the road to the First World War • The last sultan's departure on HMS Malaya, the end of the caliphate, and the dynasty's exile Whether you're drawn to Ottoman history, the fall of Constantinople, the Sultanate of Women, or the rise and fall of great empires, this is the story of the dynasty that held a world of many faiths together for six centuries, and the rules that finally undid it. If you enjoyed this deep dive, please like, subscribe, and tell us in the comments whether you think the strangling of nineteen princes in 1595 was a crime or a necessity. More royal history is coming. #HouseOfOsman #OttomanEmpire #Ottomans #SuleimanTheMagnificent #MehmedTheConqueror #Constantinople #HistoryDocumentary #RoyalHistory #Istanbul #HistoryForSleep