The Inside History

Bursa: The First Capital City of the Ottoman Empire

Orhan Bey, also referred as Orhan Ghazi (Turkish for "military man"), is the son of Muslim scholar Sheikh Edebali and Malhun Hatun. According to several historians, he was born to Bala Hatun, the daughter of Seljuk vizier mer Bey, or that Malhun Hatun and Bala Hatun were the same person. Orhan Ghazi was born in 1281, the same year that his grandfa…