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This is a list of campaigns personally led by Mehmed II (30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481) (Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثانى, Meḥmed-i s̠ānī; Turkish: II.Mehmet; also known as el-Fātiḥ, الفاتح, "the Conqueror" in Ottoman Turkish; in modern Turkish, Fatih Sultan Mehmet; also called Mahomet II in early modern Europe) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, first for a short time from ...
Siddiq Abubakar III was the longest serving Sultan, holding the position for 50 years from 1938 to 1988. The shortest reign was that of Muhammadu Attahiru I, who held the position for five months in 1902–03. The 17th sultan, Ibrahim Dasuki, was forcefully deposed in 1996 by the Sani Abacha military government of Nigeria. [3]
Sultan Mehmed IV was dissatisfied with Khan Mehmed IV Giray's support for Poles in their war, since it left Ottoman territories vulnerable to Cossack raids. Rumours later spread about more attacks that will come from Cossacks and Kalmyks on Crimea , which caused Khan to gather over 100,000 Tatar troops near Perekop and put out patrols to ...
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By the time of Sultan Mehmed II, they had been drilled with firearms and became "perhaps the first standing infantry force equipped with firearms in the world." [3] The Janissaries are thus considered the first modern standing army. [4] [5] The Ottoman Classical Army was the military structure established by Mehmed II. The classical Ottoman ...
During Selim's long campaign to Egypt in 1516–18, Mamluks were defeated three times; in the battles Marj Dabiq and Yaunis Khan on the way to Egypt and in the Battle of Ridanieh in Egypt (The first and the third personally commanded by Selim and the second by Hadim Sinan Pasha), the grand vizier. The third battle in which Hadim Sinan Pasha ...
Mehmed II is recognized as the first sultan to codify criminal and constitutional law, long before Suleiman the Magnificent; he thus established the classical image of the autocratic Ottoman sultan. Mehmed's thirty-year rule and numerous wars expanded the Ottoman Empire to include Constantinople, the Turkish kingdoms and territories of Asia ...
At the time, the Ottoman sultan was aiming to campaign east, against Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu, and was thus prepared to grant peace in return for a return to the previous status quo (including handing over the forts captured from Demetrius), the immediate payment of 3,000 gold pieces, and come in person before an envoy of the Sultan at ...