1465 Births - Johann Tetzel, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Selim I, Mercurino Gattinara, John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, Sh Shin (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Johann Tetzel, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Selim I, Mercurino Gattinara, John Hussey, 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford, Sh Shin, Laurentius Corvinus, Kunigunde of Austria, Lachlan Cattanach Maclean, 11th Chief, William Cornysh, Scipione del Ferro, Jeanne de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Diego Velazquez de Cuellar, Agostino Chigi, Hector Boece, Beatriz Galindo, Kalidas Madhu Sadhwani, Konrad Wimpina, Berthold of Chiemsee, Ashikaga Yoshihisa, H kau, Ulrich Rulein von Calw, Gerard Horenbout, Andrea Ferrucci, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Konrad Peutinger, Virupaksha Raya II, Richard Davy, Richard Weston, Andreas Stoberl, Barbara of Ole nica, Kelallur Neelakandhan Somayaji, Yamazaki S kan, Sunan Bonang, John Jenour, Bernardo Accolti, Hieronymus Dungersheim, Wang E, Frans van Brederode, Mehmed I Giray, Philotheus of Pskov, Ichij Fuyuyoshi, Bartholomaeus Arnoldi. Excerpt: Selim I, Yavuz Sultan Selim Khan, Hadim-ul Haramain-ish Sharifain (Servant of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina) (Ottoman Turkish:, Modern Turkish: I.Selim), nicknamed Yavuz "the Stern" or "the Steadfast," but often rendered in English as "the Grim" (October 10, 1465/1466/1470 - September 22, 1520), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. He was also the first Ottoman Sultan to assume the title of Caliph of Islam. He was granted the title of "Hadim ul Haramain ish Sharifain" (Servant of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina), by the Sharif of Mecca on 1517. Selim carried the empire to the leadership of the Sunni branch of Islam by his conquest of the Middle East. He represents a sudden change in the expansion policy of the empire, which was working mostly against the West and the Beyliks before his reign. On the eve of his death in 1520, the Ottoman Empire spanned almost 1 billion acres (trebling during Selim's reign). Sultan Selim Khan...