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unusual facts about Ottoman sultan



Devlet Shah Hatun

Devlet Şâh (Shâh) Khātûn, دولت شاه خاتون, (died 1411, Kütahya, Germiyan dynasty) was the wife of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, the daughter of Süleyman Shah (Şah Çelebi) of Germiyanids.

Egyptian Army

To further this aim, he brought in European weapons and expertise, and built an army that defeated the Ottoman Sultan, wresting control from the Porte of the Levant, and Hejaz.

House of Zogu

The House of Zogu is a European dynasty founded by Zogu Pasha who migrated to Mati, Albania in the late 15th century and was then appointed Governor of Mati by the Ottoman Sultan, with the position of Governor then becoming hereditary among the Zogu clan.

Nilüfer River

The river may have been renamed for the flowers or for Nilüfer Hatun, a wife of the Ottoman sultan Orhan I.

Tobias Cohn

He practised for some time in Poland, and removed later to Adrianople, where he became physician to five successive Ottoman sultans— Mehmed IV, Suleiman II, Ahmed II, Mustafa II, and Ahmed III, moving with the court to Constantinople.


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Abu Bakr Effendi

Sheikh Abu Bakr Effendi (1814–1880) was an Osmanli qadi who was sent in 1862 by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I at the request of the British Queen Victoria to the Cape of Good Hope, in order to teach and assist the Muslim community of the Cape Malays.

Battle of Varna

Anticipating an Ottoman invasion encouraged by the young and inexperienced new Ottoman sultan, Hungary co-operated with Venice and Pope Eugene IV to organize a new crusader army led by Hunyadi and Władysław III.

Emine Nazikeda

Emine Nazikeda (Emine Nazikedâ Marjim-Abaza Kadın Efendi; 9 October 1866 in Tzebelda, Abkhazia – 4 April 1941 in Cairo, Egypt), principal consort of sultan Mehmet VI, the last Ottoman Sultan.

Gabriel Bounin

In 1561, Gabriel Bounin published La Soltane, a tragedy highlighting the role of Roxelane in the execution of Şehzade Mustafa, the elder son of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

Hatt-i Humayun

Hatt-i humayun, a handwritten note of an official nature by the Ottoman Sultan.

Ibn al-Bawwab

One of the most beautiful in the rayḥānī script is in the Laleli Mosque in Istanbul, a gift of the Ottoman Sultan Selim I (1470–1512).

Il gran Tamerlano

The story of Il gran Tamerlano is based on events surrounding the Battle of Ankara of 1402, fought between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I and the Turco-Mongol ruler Timur, who is known in English-speaking countries as Tamerlane.

Legend of Saint Ursula

The banners over the tower, red-white with three golden crowns, are those of the Ottoman sultan Mehmet II, the main Venetian enemy during Carpaccio's life.

Matochina

Matochina has existed since at least 1664, when Ottoman sultan Mehmed IV was reported to have hunted near the abandoned fortress and the village located below it.

Mihr-i shah

Mihrişah Valide Sultan (died 1805), the Genoese consort of Ottoman sultan Mustafa III, and the mother of sultan Selim III

Emine Mihrişah Sultan (died 1732), the French second concubine of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, and the mother of sultan Mustafa III

Niccolò Gattilusio

The Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II used this crime as his pretext to invade Lesbos.

Osmanoğlu family

There were thirty six Ottoman Sultans who ruled over the Empire, and each one was a direct descendant through the male line of the first Ottoman Sultan, Sultan Osman I.

Paladin Gundulić

In 1458, the Republic of Ragusa sent Paladin Gundulić and Paladin Lukarić to visit the Ottoman sultan in Skopje.

St Anne's Church, Jerusalem

In 1856, in gratitude for French support during the Crimean War, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I presented it to Napoleon III.

Sultan Yahya

Eventually, Yahya's two older brothers died, but in 1603, since Yahya had escaped the country to avoid fratricide, his younger brother Ahmed I (the fourth-born) became Ottoman sultan.

Yaşar Kemal

Her grandfather, Jak Mandil Pasha, was the chief physician of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge

The name of the bridge was announced by State President Abdullah Gül at the ground-breaking ceremony as the Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, in honor of Ottoman Sultan Selim I (1465–1520).