Sultan
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Sultan is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun سلطة sulṭah, meaning "autho
Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV attended by a eunuch and two pages
The valide sultan (sultana mother) of the Ottoman Empire
Tuman Bay II, last of the Mamluk Sultans
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
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