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Selim I

1470 - 1520

Selim I

Selim I (Ottoman Turkish: سليم اول; Turkish: I. Selim; 10 October 1470 – 22 September 1520), known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute (Turkish: Yavuz Sultan Selim), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. Despite lasting only eight years, his reign is notable for the enormous expansion of the Empire, particularly his conquest between 1516 and 1517 of the entire Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, which included all of the Levant, Hejaz, Tihamah and Egypt itself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Selim I has received more than 3,478,278 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Selim I is the 82nd most popular politician (down from 81st in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Türkiye and the 6th most popular Turkish Politician.

Selim I is most famous for his conquests of the Ottoman Empire, which he expanded to include present-day Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

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82.12
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
80
Languages Editions (L)
11.76
Effective Languages (L*)
3.42
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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Selim I ranks 82 out of 19,576. Before him are Mehmed the Conqueror, Napoleon II, Ahmed I, Francisco Franco, Caligula, and Uthman. After him are Harald V of Norway, Nebuchadnezzar II, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Hurrem Sultan, Ronald Reagan, and Kim Il-sung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Selim I ranks 1. After him are Charles VIII of France, Piri Reis, Edward V of England, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Martin Waldseemüller, Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Juan Díaz de Solís, György Dózsa, Francis, Count of Vendôme, and Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan. Among people deceased in 1520, Selim I ranks 2. Before him is Raphael. After him are Pedro Álvares Cabral, Moctezuma II, Martin Waldseemüller, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Kunigunde of Austria, Cuitláhuac, Ravidas, Sten Sture the Younger, Agostino Chigi, and Ippolito d'Este.

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Selim I
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1520
HPI: 82.12
Rank: 1
Charles VIII of France
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1498
HPI: 76.29
Rank: 2
Piri Reis
GEOGRAPHER
1470 - 1554
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 3
Edward V of England
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1483
HPI: 71.85
Rank: 4
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
COMPANION
1470 - 1498
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 5
Martin Waldseemüller
GEOGRAPHER
1470 - 1520
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 6
Hongzhi Emperor
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1505
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 7
Pietro Bembo
WRITER
1470 - 1547
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 8
Juan Díaz de Solís
EXPLORER
1470 - 1516
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 9
György Dózsa
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1514
HPI: 62.54
Rank: 10
Francis, Count of Vendôme
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1495
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 11
Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan
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1470 - 1524
HPI: 61.09
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