Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "สุลต่านออสมันที่ 1" in Thai language version.
Reliable information regarding Osman is scarce. His birth date is unknown and his symbolic significance as the father of the dynasty has encouraged the development of mythic tales regarding the ruler's life and origins; however, historians agree that before 1300, Osman was simply one among a number of Turkoman tribal leaders operating in the Sakarya region.
By the time of Osman's death (1323 or 1324)...
There is still not one authentic written document known from the time of ʿOsmān, and there are not many from the fourteenth century altogether.
That they hailed from the Kayı branch of the Oğuz confederacy seems to be a creative "rediscovery" in the genealogical concoction of the fifteenth century. It is missing not only in Ahmedi but also, and more importantly, in the Yahşi Fakih-Aşıkpaşazade narrative, which gives its own version of an elaborate genealogical family tree going back to Noah. If there was a particularly significant claim to Kayı lineage, it is hard to imagine that Yahşi Fakih would not have heard of it.
Based on these charters, all of which were drawn up between 1324 and 1360 (almost one hundred fifty years prior to the emergence of the Ottoman dynastic myth identifying them as members of the Kayı branch of the Oguz federation of Turkish tribes), we may posit that...
In the beginning of this yere Sulton Solyman Pac called yͤ great Turke which was but the. viii. of the ligne of Ottoman, the firſt that toke vpō hym to be a great capitain or ruler […]
Ottoman the firſte Emperour of this Turkiſhe nation, […]
In the Firſt Place are Conditores Imperiorum; Founders of States, and Common-Wealths: Such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Cæſar, Ottoman, Iſmael.
It is unqueſtionable, that about the year 1300 upon Aladin's Death, Ottoman was an abſolute Soveraign […]
OTTOMAN the Son of Ethrogul the Son of Solyman (who was drove out of Perſia by the Tartars) was about A.D. 1290 ſaluted with the Title of Governor of the Oguzian Turks in Aſia […]
Ottoman, notwithſtanding this Succeſs, thought fit to agree to a Truce with the Chriſtians […]
[…] Ortogules, ſonne to Oguzalpes, and father to Otoman the firſt of name of the Turkiſh nation […]
OTHOMAN, or OSMAN, the firſt King of the Turks […]
