Turcici Imperii (Turkish Empire). About the origins and beginnings of the Turkish Empire, its increase and growth until it gradually reached that greatness which it now has, …we have gathered for the reader these few lines from the best Historiographers of our time. In the year of Christ 1300 one OTTOMANNUS, a Turk, son of Zichi, a man of simple parentage, began, because of his inventive mind and great experience in feats of arms and discipline of war, to grow famous and renowned among the Turks. Of this man the group of the Turkish Emperors first took their name and origin, and he was the first ordained king over the Turks and all his descendents are called Ottomans. ” from text on back of map translated by Marcel van den Broecke”