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Mehmed VI

1861 - 1926

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Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Ottoman Turkish: محمد سادس Meḥmed-i sâdis or وحيد الدين Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn; Turkish: VI. Mehmed or Vahdeddin/Vahideddin; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba (lit. 'Emperor-father') among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 until 1 November 1922, when the Ottoman sultanate was abolished and replaced by the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923. The brother of Mehmed V Reşâd, he became heir to the throne in 1916, after the death of Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin, as the eldest male member of the House of Osman. He acceded to the throne after the death of Mehmed V. He was girded with the Sword of Osman on 4 July 1918 as the 36th padishah and 115th Islamic Caliph. Mehmed VI's reign began with the Ottoman Empire suffering defeat by the Allied Powers with the conclusion of World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmed VI has received more than 3,343,644 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Mehmed VI is the 208th most popular politician (up from 247th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Turkey and the 24th most popular Turkish Politician.

Mehmed VI 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 VI ranks 208 out of 15,577. Before him are Slobodan Milošević, Heraclius, George VI, Mahidevran, Alexander III of Russia, and Rudolf Hess. After him are Yuri Andropov, Tomyris, Brutus the Younger, Xi Jinping, Ferdinand I of Austria, and Harun al-Rashid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Mehmed VI ranks 2. Before him is Rabindranath Tagore. After him are Rudolf Steiner, Fridtjof Nansen, Georges Méliès, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, James Naismith, Victor Horta, Erich von Falkenhayn, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Alfred North Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1926, Mehmed VI ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet and Antoni Gaudí. After him are Rainer Maria Rilke, Harry Houdini, Emperor Taishō, Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Camillo Golgi, Mary Cassatt, and Emil Kraepelin.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Mehmed VI ranks 42 out of 1,301. Before him are Anaxagoras (-500), Suleiman II (1642), Orhan (1288), Alp Arslan (1029), Heraclius (575), and Mahidevran (1500). After him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Şehzade Bayezid (1525), Mahmud II (1785), Ahmed II (1643), and Margaret the Virgin (292).

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Among POLITICIANS In Turkey

Among politicians born in Turkey, Mehmed VI ranks 24. Before him are Mehmed I (1386), Suleiman II (1642), Orhan (1288), Alp Arslan (1029), Heraclius (575), and Mahidevran (1500). After him are Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Şehzade Bayezid (1525), Mahmud II (1785), Ahmed II (1643), and Mehmed V (1844).

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