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Little is understood about the very early decades of the Ottoman state. But there is general agreement that a Greek Byzantine commander named Michael (Mihal in Turkish) was a key, possibly the key, subordinate of Osman I. Michael's descendants were among the most powerful Ottoman noble houses until the centralizing reforms of the sixteenth century.
What if, instead of Osman I, the "Ottoman" empire was founded by the Greek Muslim Mihal?