Murad I

Murad I
Bey Emîr-i a’zam Gazi Han Hüdavendigâr Sultânü’s-selâtîn Melikü’l-mülûk
Miniature of Murad I from a 16th-century manuscript
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign	March 1362 – 15 June 1389
Predecessor	Orhan
Successor	Bayezid I
Born	29 June 1326 Bursa,[1][2] Ottoman Beylik
Died	15 June 1389(1389-06-15) (aged 62) Kosovo field, District of Branković
Burial	Organs buried at Tomb of Murad I, Kosovo 42°42′07″N 21°06′15″E / 42.70194°N 21.10417°E / 42.70194; 21.10417 Body buried at Sultan Murad Türbe, Osmangazi, Bursa
Consorts	Gülçiçek Hatun Thamara Hatun Paşa Melek Hatun Others
Issue Among others	Savci Bey Bayezid I Yakub Çelebi Nefise Hatun
Names Murad bin Orhan
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Orhan
Mother	Nilüfer Hatun
Religion	Sunni Islam
Tughra

Murad I (Ottoman Turkish: مراد اول; Turkish: I. Murad, Murad-ı Hüdavendigâr (nicknamed Hüdavendigâr, from Persian: خداوندگار, romanized: Khodāvandgār, lit. 'the devotee of God' – meaning "sovereign" in this context); 29 June 1326 – 15 June 1389) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1362 to 1389. He was the son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun. Murad I came into the throne after his elder brother Süleyman Pasha's death.

Murad I conquered Adrianople, renamed it to Edirne,^[2] and in 1363 made it the new capital of the Ottoman Sultanate.^[3] Then he further expanded the Ottoman realm in Southern Europe by bringing most of the Balkans under Ottoman rule, and forced the princes of Serbia and Bulgaria as well as the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos to pay him tribute.^[2] Murad I administratively divided his sultanate into the two provinces of Anatolia (Asia Minor) and Rumelia (the Balkans).