Q 01/05

From whom does the Ottoman Empire take its name?

A) Osman I

B) Othman ibn Affan

C) Orhan

D) Ottokar

Answer · why

A) Osman I

He was a Turkoman tribal leader whose beylik emerged in northwestern Anatolia around 1299.

Q 02/05

Which region of northwestern Anatolia, on the Byzantine frontier, was the cradle of the Ottoman beylik?

A) Cappadocia

B) Bithynia

C) Lycia

D) Cilicia

Answer · why

B) Bithynia

A Byzantine defeat at the Battle of Bapheus in 1302 helped Osman's rise.

Q 03/05

Which city did Osman's son Orhan capture in 1326 and make the new Ottoman capital?

A) Ankara

B) Konya

C) Edirne

D) Bursa

Answer · why

D) Bursa

The empire's later capitals were Edirne and, from 1453, Constantinople.

Q 04/05

Which Serbian prince led the army against Sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?

A) Lazar Hrebeljanovic

B) Vuk Brankovic

C) Milos Obilic

D) Stefan Dusan

Answer · why

A) Lazar Hrebeljanovic

It was one of the largest battles of the Late Middle Ages, fought about 5 km from modern Pristina.

Q 05/05

Which Turco-Mongol conqueror defeated the Ottomans at Ankara in 1402 and captured Sultan Bayezid I?

A) Hulagu

B) Timur

C) Babur

D) Genghis Khan

Answer · why

B) Timur

The resulting civil war between Bayezid's sons lasted from 1402 to 1413.