prusa

Updated: June 19, 2025

Perhaps the reader will thank us for rehearsing the main steps by which the Ottoman power had flowed and ebbed. His son Osman first assumed the title of Sultan; and, in 1300, having reduced the city of Prusa, in Bithynia, he made it the capital of his dominions.

Thomas De Quincey - Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1