# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehmed-i
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:44:08.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehmed-i"
name: "Mehmed I"
slug: "mehmed-i"
description: "The sultan who put the Ottoman Empire back together. After his father's defeat shattered the state into warring brothers, Mehmed spent eleven years fighting his way from a single Anatolian province to reunification—earning the title \"The Restorer\" by holding what others had lost."
tagline: "Fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413–1421)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "TR"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1386"
deathDate: "1421-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.50168533333333
  currentAttention:     10.21428571428572
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 1386 to Sultan Bayezid I and a concubine named Devlet Hatun, Mehmed entered a nightmare when his father's defeat in 1402 triggered the Ottoman Interregnum—a decade-long civil war among brothers. Starting from the province of Rûm, he clawed back Anatolia first, then the European territories of Rumelia, reuniting the empire by 1413. He reestablished central authority across Anatolia and pushed Ottoman presence deeper into Europe by conquering Dobruja in 1419. Venice shattered his fleet off Gallipoli in 1416, a naval defeat that checked his ambitions at sea. He ruled until his death on 26 May 1421, having salvaged a state that had nearly collapsed into fragments.