Abdul Hamid I was the Ottoman Sultan from 1774 to 1789, when he signed the humiliating Treaty of Kuçuk Kaynarca to end the war with Russia. In 1783, Russia conquered Crimea (a tributary stat ...
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The Yuan dynasty was a Chinese ruling dynasty that ruled from 1271 to 1368 after the Mongol Empire was divided. It was founded by Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongol Borjigin clan. This dynasty c ...
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Ariq Boke (after the year 1219 to the year 1266) was Tolui's seventh and youngest son and a grandson of Genghis Khan. Ariq Boke assumed the title of Great Khan of the Mongol Empire when his bro ...
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Mustafa III, an Ottoman sultan who sought governmental and military reforms to stem the empire's decline and waged war on Russia, ended in a terrible defeat (after his death). However, Mustafa ...
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Osman II, commonly known as Genç Osman, was the Ottoman Empire's 25th Sultan. He ascended to the kingdom as a 14-year-old lively and intellectual child, and during his brief reign. He sa ...
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Mahmud I was also known as the Hunchback. From 1730 to 1754, he was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. After the Patrona Halil revolt, he ascended to the throne and maintained cordial relations with the ...
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Sultan Mehmed IV's son, Sultan Ahmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in the Dobruja town of Hacolu Pazarck. On his brother Mustafa II's abdication in 1703, he ascende ...
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From 1695 to 1703, Mustafa II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. His resolve to reclaim lands lost following the failed effort to seize Vienna in 1683 prompted him to continue the fight against ...
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From 1691 to 1695, Ahmed II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Ahmed encouraged tribal settlement in Anatolia and Syria to provide land for nomadic Turkmen tribes and end certain abuses in the O ...
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From 1687 until 1691, Suleiman II (15 April 1642 to 22 June 1691) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleiman with his Grand Vizier Fazıl Mustafa Pasha successfully turned the tide of the Holy Leagu ...
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From 1648 until 1687, Mehmed IV, commonly known as Mehmed the Hunter, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. After his father was deposed in a coup, he ascended to the kingdom at six. Contemporaries ...
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From 1640 to 1648, Ibrahim (5 November 1615 – 18 August 1648) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was the son of Ahmed I and Valide Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally called A ...
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