Çorlu
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Çorlu is a municipality and district of Tekirdağ Province, northwestern Turkey. Its area is 531 km2, and its population is 300,296. It is a rapidly growing industrial center built on flatland located
Emlak Konutları towerblocks – a prominent site of the city
Çorlu place-name sign on the state road D.100 (2017).
Historical municipal building of the city.
5th Army Corps
Selim I
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Selim I, also known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute, was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite lasting only eight years, his reign is notable for the enormous expansion o
Çorlu
…post on the road from Constantinople to Greece. The nearby village of Uğraşdere was the site of the battle in which Sultan Beyazid II defeated his son Selim I in August 1511; a year later Beyazid II was defeated by Selim, becoming the first Ottoman father to be overthrown by his son. Beyazid II died in Çorlu…
16th-century miniature of Selim I by Nakkaş Osman
Selim I at the Battle of Chaldiran: artwork at the Chehel Sotoun Pavilion in Isfahan
A modern painting depicting Selim I during the Egypt campaign, located in Army Museum, Istanbul
Outline of the Ottoman Empire, from the Theatro d'el Orbe de la Tierra de Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp, 1602, updated from the 1570 edition