POLITICIAN

Selim I

1470 - 1520

Selim I

Selim I (Ottoman Turkish: سليم الأول; 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. On the eve of his death in 1520, the Ottoman Empire spanned about 3.4 million km2 (1.3 million sq mi), having grown by seventy percent during Selim's reign. Selim's conquest of the Middle Eastern heartlands of the Muslim world, and particularly his assumption of the role of guardian of the pilgrimage routes to Mecca and Medina, established the Ottoman Empire as the pre-eminent Muslim state. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Selim I is the 131st most popular politician (down from 82nd in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 13th in 2019) and the 7th 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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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Selim I ranks 131 out of 19,576. Before him are Brutus the Younger, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Hirohito, Mary I of England, and Louis XIII of France. After him are Ferdinand Marcos, Ashoka, Napoleon III, Al Gore, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Ivan the Terrible.

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Brutus the Younger
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Nicolae Ceaușescu
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Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor
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Hirohito
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Mary I of England
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Louis XIII of France
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Selim I
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Al Gore
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Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Ivan the Terrible
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1470, Selim I ranks 2. Before him is Edward V of England. After him are Charles VIII of France, Piri Reis, Martin Waldseemüller, Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Catherine of Navarre, Hongzhi Emperor, Pietro Bembo, Francis, Count of Vendôme, Juan Díaz de Solís, and György Dózsa. 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, Cuitláhuac, Sten Sture the Younger, Kunigunde of Austria, Agostino Chigi, Ravidas, and Ippolito d'Este.

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Edward V of England
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1483
HPI: 85.88
Rank: 1
Selim I
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1520
HPI: 85.13
Rank: 2
Charles VIII of France
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1498
HPI: 80.03
Rank: 3
Piri Reis
GEOGRAPHER
1470 - 1554
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 4
Martin Waldseemüller
GEOGRAPHER
1470 - 1520
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 5
Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
COMPANION
1470 - 1498
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 6
Catherine of Navarre
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1517
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 7
Hongzhi Emperor
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1505
HPI: 70.82
Rank: 8
Pietro Bembo
WRITER
1470 - 1547
HPI: 70.40
Rank: 9
Francis, Count of Vendôme
POLITICIAN
1470 - 1495
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 10
Juan Díaz de Solís
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1470 - 1516
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Rank: 11
György Dózsa
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1470 - 1514
HPI: 67.84
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