POLITICIAN

Mehmed I

1386 - 1421

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Mehmed I (c. 1386/7 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi (Greek: Κυριτζής, romanized: Kyritzis, "lord's son"), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan Bayezid I and his concubine Devlet Hatun, he fought with his brothers over control of the Ottoman realm in the Ottoman Interregnum (1402–1413). Starting from the province of Rûm he managed to bring first Anatolia and then the European territories (Rumelia) under his control, reuniting the Ottoman state by 1413, and ruling it until his death in 1421. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmed I has received more than 1,526,181 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Mehmed I is the 204th most popular politician (down from 159th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 34th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Politician.

Mehmed I was the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mehmed I ranks 204 out of 19,576Before him are A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, Henry III of France, Hosni Mubarak, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Bayezid I. After him are Darius III, Joanna of Castile, Heraclius, Amenhotep III, George H. W. Bush, and Haakon VII of Norway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1386, Mehmed I ranks 2Before him is Donatello. After him are Henry V of England, John of Capistrano, Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria, An-Nasir Faraj, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Ambrose Traversari, and Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1421, Mehmed I ranks 1After him are Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, Jean II Le Maingre, Nanni di Banco, Stephen Ostojić of Bosnia, and Khizr Khan.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mehmed I ranks 36 out of 1,347Before him are Mehmed IV (1642), Anaxagoras (-500), Osman II (1604), Hesiod (-800), John Chrysostom (349), and Bayezid I (1354). After him are Rachel (-3500), Mihrimah Sultan (1522), Heraclius (575), Helena (250), Mehmed VI (1861), and Epictetus (50).

Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Mehmed I ranks 20Before him are Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Mehmed IV (1642), Osman II (1604), and Bayezid I (1354). After him are Heraclius (575), Mehmed VI (1861), Şehzade Mustafa (1515), Suleiman II (1642), Mahmud II (1785), and Ahmed II (1643).