Kara Osman was a 19th century Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 oilwrestler. He was known to Turkish public as Filibeli Kara Osman after his birthplace Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

. Osman and two other Turkish wrestlers, Nurullah Hasan

Nurullah Hasan

Ali Nurullah Hasan was a Turkish wrestler. He was known with his nickname as Filiz Nurullah Pehlivan to Turkish public whereas he used the alias Hassan Nurullah for his professional wrestling career in Western Europe.Nurullah was trained in oil wrestling by Yusuf İsmail...

 and Youssuf Ishmaelo, were brought to the West in 1894 by French

France

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 wrestler Joseph Doublier. A story that Doublier went to Turkey to find someone capable of defeating his "hated rival" Fernand Sabès, was circulated at the time.