ABSTRACT
The arrival of the Osmanli or Ottoman Turks are more familiarly known, who were to exert an almost limitless impact on Europe and Asia for so many centuries was relatively discreet and modest. In Europe, Ottoman dominion was carried into Hungary in 1526, while in the Middle East the remaining Turkish beyliks of Anatolia, the Crimea, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria, and the coastal areas of Arabia, Aden and Yemen were brought under control. The Ottoman Turks were, however, unique among their contemporaries in their expansion from modest kingdom to mighty cosmopolitan empire. With the decline of the Abbasid power Turkish groups set up their own kingdoms. Turkish tribal groups already by the sixth to eighth centuries had formed a confederation which expanded territorially from Mongolia to the Black Sea. The expansion of the Turks into Anatolia was preceded by their first major settlement as an important military power in the Middle East.
