Ruler · 1386 – 1421

Mehmed I

Lived 1386 – 1421; monarch. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), 1413 – 1421.

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Lived: 1386 – 1421; 35 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Ottoman Empire
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire · the 5th of 39 dated reigns · 1299 – 1922

1 before

Mehmed I1413 – 1421

31 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadthis entry

Reigned 1413 – 1421 · 8 years · came to it aged 27

Came to it: seized powerthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1421, the year they died

After winning the Interregnum, Mehmed crowned himself sultan in the Thracian city of Edirne that lay in the European part of the empire (the area dividing the Anatolian and European sides of the empire, Constantinople and the surrounding region, was still held by the Byzantine Empire), becoming Mehm…

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