Sogut

Sogut is a town and locale in Bilecik Province, Turkey. It is situated in the Marmara locale in the north-west of the nation, with a territory of 599 km², bordering Bilecik toward the west, Golpazarı toward the north, Inhisar toward the north-east, Tepebasi toward the south-east, and Bozuyuk toward the south-west. Sogut locale has 5 districts and 23 towns, with the populace last recorded as 21,012 citizens, but as indicated by a 2010 gauge the populace was 19,425.

Sogut was a Seljuk Turkish clan in western Anatolia that later brought forth the Ottoman Empire. It was a little however modern clan that stretched out from the Kayi part of the Seljuk Turks that in the twelfth and 13^th century attacked Anatolia. The town of Sogut was encompassed by three more noteworthy Turkish clans; Eskenderum in the north, Eskisehir in the east, Konyali in the south; and with the Byzantine Empire in the west.

Legend has it that the bey of the clan in the late 13^th century, Ertugrul, boldly kept the foes under control with the goal that his child, Osman, could vanquish them all amid his rule, 1299 to 1326. At the point when Osman's child, Orhan, came to control after his dad's demise he renamed the clan Osmanli out of appreciation for his dad. The town of Sogut later developed into a town that served the Osmanli clan as capital until the catch of the Byzantine city of Bursa in 1326 when the capital was moved to the undeniably lavish castles of the Byzantines.