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Otto Liman von Sanders

1855 - 1929

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Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈliːman fɔn ˈzandɐs]; 17 February 1855 – 22 August 1929) was an Imperial German Army general who served as a military adviser to the Ottoman Army during the First World War. In 1918 he commanded an Ottoman army during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Liman von Sanders has received more than 427,604 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Otto Liman von Sanders is the 257th most popular military personnel (up from 260th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Poland (down from 122nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Otto Liman von Sanders was a German general who served as the military advisor to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. He was most famous for his role in the Battle of Gallipoli.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Otto Liman von Sanders ranks 257 out of 2,058. Before him are Qutayba ibn Muslim, Jean Victor Marie Moreau, Karl Wolff, Italo Balbo, Ivan Bagramyan, and Otto Günsche. After him are Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Craterus, Hasdrubal Barca, Omar Bradley, Baiju, and Zhang Liao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Otto Liman von Sanders ranks 4. Before him are Ferdinand Tönnies, Archduchess Sophie of Austria, and Émile Verhaeren. After him are John Browning, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Eleanor Marx, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Ernest Chausson, Percival Lowell, Paul Deschanel, and Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1929, Otto Liman von Sanders ranks 14. Before him are Prince Maximilian of Baden, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Emile Berliner, Sergei Diaghilev, Aby Warburg, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After him are Émile Loubet, Thorstein Veblen, Maria Christina of Austria, Mercédès Jellinek, Wyatt Earp, and Antoine Bourdelle.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Otto Liman von Sanders ranks 135 out of 1,694. Before him are Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Hanna Schygulla (1943), Angelus Silesius (1624), Władysław I the Elbow-high (1260), and Adolf Anderssen (1818). After him are Géza I of Hungary (1040), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Władysław Gomułka (1905), Erwin von Witzleben (1881), and Anna Anderson (1896).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Poland

Among military personnels born in Poland, Otto Liman von Sanders ranks 14. Before him are Werner von Blomberg (1878), Anton Denikin (1872), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Władysław Sikorski (1881), and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (1755). After him are Erwin von Witzleben (1881), Rochus Misch (1917), Hermann Balck (1893), Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889), Otto Kretschmer (1912), and Otto von Below (1857).

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