Person details

name
Yavuz Sultan Selim
gender
Male
birth year
1470
death year
1520
start reign
1512
end reign
1520
religion
Islam
type
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description

Sultan of Ottoman Empire. Followed Bayezid II to the throne and established authority within the Ottoman Empire. He also established unity in Anatolia, waged may campaigns such as to Çaldıran, Merc-i Dabık, Hanyunus, Ridaniye and expanded the frontiers so as to include Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan and Hejaza, thus accomplishing Islamic unity to a great extent.

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