Editing Orhan (section)

==Passage of power==
Osman Gazi died in either 1323 or 1324,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kafadar |first=Cemal |title=Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State |date=1995 |page=16 }}</ref> and Orhan succeeded him. According to Ottoman tradition, when Orhan succeeded his father, he proposed to his brother, [[Alaeddin Pasha|Alaeddin]], that they should share the emerging empire. The latter refused on the grounds that their father had designated Orhan as sole successor, and that the empire should not be divided. He only accepted as his share the revenues of a single village near [[Bursa, Turkey|Bursa]].