Mehmed I
Fifth Ottoman Sultan (1413-1421) · Turkey · Historical Figures · Lived 1386 to 1421 · aged 35
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Something wrong?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.
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Arbre généalogique des trente premiers sultans ottomans - Musée du Louvre Arts de l'Islam MAO 2315
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Letter from Jahanshah b. Qara Yusuf of the Qara Quyunlu reporting to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I about his preparations of war against Uzun Hasan and the latter's plans (1467-68)
Mehmed I - Manyal Palace Museum
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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.
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