Ruler · 1470 – 1520

Selim I

Lived 1470 – 1520; monarch, poet. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), 1512 – 1520; also in the line of Ottoman Greece.

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Lived: 1470 – 1520; 50 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire · the 11th of 39 dated reigns · 1299 – 1922

7 before

Murad II1446 – 1451

Mehmed II1451 – 1481

Bayezid II1481 – 1512

Selim I1512 – 1520

Suleiman the Magnificent1520 – 1566

Selim II1566 – 1574

Murad III1574 – 1595

25 after

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

Reigned 1512 – 1520 · 8 years · came to it aged 42

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeWikidata's manner of death: natural causes; anthrax

Also in the line of Ottoman Greece (3rd of 25, read from the line of Ottoman Empire).

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