Ruler · 1432 – 1481

Mehmed II

Lived 1432 – 1481; monarch, poet. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), 1444 – 1446 and 1 more term; also in the line of Ottoman Greece.

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Lived: 1432 – 1481; 49 years
In office: 32 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 2; states
Left it: abdicated; the ruler's own article

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire · the 7th and 9th of 39 dated reigns · 1299 – 1922

3 before

Mehmed II1444 – 1446

Mehmed II1451 – 1481

Bayezid II1481 – 1512

Selim I1512 – 1520

Suleiman the Magnificent1520 – 1566

27 after

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

Reigned 1444 – 1446 · 2 years · came to it aged 12 · term 1 of 2

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: abdicatedread from the ruler's own article

After Murad II made peace with Hungary on 12 June 1444, he abdicated the throne in favour of his 12-year-old son Mehmed II in July/August 1444.

Reigned 1451 – 1481 · 30 years · came to it aged 19 · term 2 of 2

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1481, the year they died

Also in the line of Ottoman Greece (1st of 25, read from the line of Ottoman Empire).

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