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Bayezid I

1354 - 1403

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Bayezid I (Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد اول; Turkish: I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (Ottoman Turkish: یلدیرم بايزيد; Turkish: Yıldırım Bayezid; c. 1360 – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of Sultan-i Rûm, Rûm being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 1394, Bayezid unsuccessfully besieged Constantinople. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bayezid I has received more than 2,152,484 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Bayezid I is the 203rd most popular politician (down from 119th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Turkish Politician.

Bayezid I is most famous for his conquest of Constantinople in 1453.

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  • 77.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bayezid I ranks 203 out of 19,576. Before him are Louis the Pious, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Henry III of France, Hosni Mubarak, and Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Mehmed I, Darius III, Joanna of Castile, Heraclius, Amenhotep III, and George H. W. Bush.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1354, Bayezid I ranks 1. After him are Skirgaila, Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, Dan I of Wallachia, Peter II of Cyprus, Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, and James of Baux. Among people deceased in 1403, Bayezid I ranks 1. After him are Henry Percy, and Katherine Swynford.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Bayezid I ranks 35 out of 1,347. Before him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Mehmed IV (1642), Anaxagoras (-500), Osman II (1604), Hesiod (-800), and John Chrysostom (349). After him are Mehmed I (1386), Rachel (-3500), Mihrimah Sultan (1522), Heraclius (575), Helena (250), and Mehmed VI (1861).

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Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Bayezid I ranks 19. Before him are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Mehmed IV (1642), and Osman II (1604). After him are Mehmed I (1386), Heraclius (575), Mehmed VI (1861), Şehzade Mustafa (1515), Suleiman II (1642), and Mahmud II (1785).

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