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Mehmed V

1844 - 1918

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Mehmed V Reşâd (Ottoman Turkish: محمد خامس, romanized: Meḥmed-i ḫâmis; Turkish: V. Mehmed or Mehmed Reşad; 2 November 1844 – 3 July 1918) was the penultimate sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 to 1918. Mehmed V reigned as a constitutional monarch, interfering little when it came to government affairs, though the constitution was held with little regard by his ministries. The first half of his reign was marked by contentious politicking between factions of the Young Turks, and the second half by war and domination of the Committee of Union and Progress and the Three Pashas. Reşad was the son of Sultan Abdulmejid I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmed V has received more than 2,277,924 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Mehmed V is the 336th most popular politician (down from 283rd in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Türkiye and the 28th most popular Politician.

Mehmed V was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was most famous for being the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mehmed V ranks 336 out of 19,576Before him are Park Chung-hee, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Cardinal Mazarin, Qianlong Emperor, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Lyndon B. Johnson. After him are Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Edward VI of England, Raúl Castro, Louis XVIII of France, Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Juan Perón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Mehmed V ranks 6Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Benz, Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, and Paul Verlaine. After him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Bernadette Soubirous, Henri Rousseau, Ilya Repin, Umberto I of Italy, and Mary Cassatt. Among people deceased in 1918, Mehmed V ranks 8Before him are Gustav Klimt, Abdul Hamid II, Gavrilo Princip, Claude Debussy, Manfred von Richthofen, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Egon Schiele, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Georg Cantor, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and Georg Simmel.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mehmed V ranks 50 out of 1,347Before him are Suleiman II (1642), Mimar Sinan (1490), Mahmud II (1785), Ahmed II (1643), Xenophanes (-570), and Şehzade Bayezid (1525). After him are Margaret the Virgin (292), Constantine XI Palaiologos (1404), Mustafa II (1664), Gregory of Nazianzus (329), Julian (331), and Apollonius of Perga (-262).

Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Mehmed V ranks 28Before him are Mehmed VI (1861), Şehzade Mustafa (1515), Suleiman II (1642), Mahmud II (1785), Ahmed II (1643), and Şehzade Bayezid (1525). After him are Constantine XI Palaiologos (1404), Mustafa II (1664), Julian (331), Abdulmejid I (1823), Hatice Sultan (1496), and Abdul Hamid I (1725).