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Suleiman I ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to 1566, leading campaigns in Hungary, the Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, and surrounding regions. His forces captured Belgrade and Rhodes, defeated Hungary at Mohacs, and unsuccessfully besieged Vienna in 1529. Known in Ottoman tradition as Kanuni, or the...
Mehmed II was an Ottoman sultan who reigned from 1444 to 1446 and again from 1451 to 1481. On May 29, 1453, his forces captured Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and establishing the city as the Ottoman capital. He repopulated and rebuilt the city, centralized imperial authority, sponsored...
Selim I was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 until his death in 1520. He defeated the Safavid army at Chaldiran in 1514, securing Ottoman control in eastern Anatolia, and then conquered the Mamluk Sultanate in campaigns that brought Syria, Egypt, and the holy cities of Mecca and Medina under O...
Ottoman sultan from 1876 to 1909 who suspended the constitution and ruled autocratically, overseeing Armenian massacres and the empire's accelerating territorial losses.
Mehmed VI (r. 1918–1922) was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, deposed when the Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the sultanate on 1 November 1922.
