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First steps to Europe (Rumelia)
While the heir struggle were continuing tremendously in Byzantine, the Ottomans were needed in order to help Kantakuzen (Cantacusenus), who was in desire to be the Byzantine's forthcoming Emperor .The Ottomans accepted Kantakuzen's offer. Suleyman Pasha also prevented Serbian and Bulgarian attacks, passed to Rumelia and saved Kantakuzen's son in Edirne. The Ottomans reciprocated locating their soldiers at Cimpe Fortress (1353). Therefore the Ottomans passed through Rumelia which was primary politics of Orhan Bey, to locate "Turkish" population to Rumelia.
When Suleyman Pasha died accidentally died in hunting, Orhan Bey, turned over the Ottomans throne to his other son, Murat I in 1359
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