Bayezid II
The eighth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1481-1512) · Turkey · Historical Figures · Lived 1447 to 1512 · aged 64
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Something wrong?The Ottoman sultan who opened the empire's doors when Spain expelled its Jews in 1492, turning exile into resettlement and bringing Sephardi communities across his territories.
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Sultan bayezid II, Shāhnāma-i Malik-i Āhī, calligrapher and painter Darwish Mahmud b. Abdullah nakkash, Istanbul, ca. 1495, tSMK, H. 1123, fol. 14a
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An “Assembly of Sultan bayezid II,” Shāhnāma-i Malik-i Āhī, calligrapher and painter Darwish Mahmud b. Abdullah nakkash, Istanbul, ca. 1495, tSMK, H. 1123, fol. 14a
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Bayezid II took the throne in 1481 and spent three decades stabilizing an empire still expanding its reach. He put down a rebellion aligned with the Safavid cause, tightening his hold on a realm that stretched across three continents. When Ferdinand and Isabella issued the Alhambra Decree in 1492, Bayezid sent ships to Iberia and resettled the Sephardi refugees throughout Ottoman lands, with Salonica becoming a major center. In 1512, after years of tension with his son Selim, he abdicated and died two weeks later on the road from the capital.
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