Orhaniye Complex
Orhaniye (literally "land of Orhan" in Turkish) may refer to the following places in Turkey: * Orhaniye, Bandırma, a village * Orhaniye, Edirne * Orhaniye, Karacabey * Orhaniye, Kazan, a village and neighborhood in the district of Kazan, Ankara Province * Orhaniye, Keşan * Orhaniye, Kestel * Orhaniye, Koçarlı, a village in the district of Koçarlı, Aydın Province * Orhaniye, Mudanya * Orhaniye, Mustafakemalpaşa * Orhaniye, Osmaneli, a village in the district of Osmaneli, Bilecik Province * Orhaniye, Çay Orhaniye is a village in the Çay District, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian ...

Orhan
Orhan Ghazi ( ota, اورخان غازی; tr, Orhan Gazi, also spelled Orkhan, 1281 – March 1362) was the second bey of the Ottoman Beylik from 1323/4 to 1362. He was born in Söğüt, as the son of Osman I. In the early stages of his reign, Orhan focused his energies on conquering most of northwestern Anatolia. The majority of these areas were under Byzantine rule and he won his first battle at Pelekanon against the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos. Orhan also occupied the lands of the Karasids of Balıkesir and the Ahis of Ankara. A series of civil wars surrounding the ascension of the nine-year-old Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos greatly benefited Orhan. In the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, the regent John VI Kantakouzenos married his daughter Theodora to Orhan and employed Ottoman warriors against the rival forces of the empress dowager, allowing them to loot Thrace. In the Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357, Kantakouzenos used Ottoman force ...
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