Amurath was tall, round faced with a big nose and a thick, well
muscled body. He usually wore a sikke, the long cap of the
whirling dervishes, wrapped inside a round turban. He dressed
very simply and liked garments colored white-on-red. He was
courteous sympathetic, reasonable and mild. He enjoyed the
company of artists and well educated people and always treated
the poor very benevolently. His people loved him. Amurath was
brought up by his mother Nilüfer Khatun. He spent his youth at
Brusa, with the artists and teachers at the Islamic School of
Theology. Nearly all his life was spent on battlefields and
moving with his army from one place to another. In the periods
between wars he found time to build great buildings and works of
art. In Brusa he erected mosques, schools and of all things a
soup kitchen! Edirne was made his capital, a huge palace being
built there. The Empire stretched for 95,000 square kilometers
when he came to power and was expanded to 500,000 during his
sultanate. The following are some