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	Mehmed I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mehmed I Çelebi (nicknamed Kirisci, "the Executioner") (1389 – May 26, 1421) was a sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
		Mehmed gained some lands in Anatolia, which at the time gave him access to the largest source of manpower in the Ottoman lands.
		Mehmed supported his brother Musa in the overthrow and murder of their eldest sibling, Suleiman of Rumelia in 1410.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmed_I (231 words)

	Mehmed III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mehmed III (May 26, 1566 – December 22, 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.
		Mehmed was an idle ruler, leaving government to his mother Safiye (the Valide Sultan).
		Mehmed's armies conquered Erlau (1596) and defeated the Habsburg and Transylvanian forces at the Battle of Mezokeresztes during which the Sultan had to be dissuaded from fleeing the field halfway through the battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmed_III (146 words)

	Mehmed II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed II Mehmed II, also known as Muhammed II (March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481; also known as el-Fatih, 'the Conqueror') was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481.
		Mehmed's advance toward the heart of Europe was stopped by the unsuccessful Siege of Nándorfehérvár in 1456, however.
		Mehmed thought of himself as the heir to the throne of the Roman Empire - which, technically, he was after capturing Constantinople - and, as a result, adopted the title "Kayser-i-Rüm" (Roman Caesar) and invaded Italy in 1480.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mehmed_II (734 words)

	Fall of Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed, whose great-grandfather Bayezid I had previously built a fortress on the Asian side of the Bosporus called Anadolu Hisarı, now built a second castle outside the walls of Constantinople on the European side, which would increase Turkish influence on the straits.
		Mehmed planned to attack the Theodosian Walls, the intricate series of walls and ditches protecting Constantinople from an attack from the west, the only part of the city not surrounded by water.
		Mehmed waited until the area was secured and entered the city in a ceremonial procession where the local population brought him flowers in congratulations.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Siege_of_Constantinople (1577 words)

	Mehmed Köprülü - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed Köprülü (1575/1578/1583 – October 31, 1661) was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1656 until his death.
		From 1670 to 1674, Mehmed campaigned in Poland, and at one point the Ottoman rule was close to extending into Podolia and Ukraine.
		Mehmed's victories in Transylvania would push the Ottoman border closer to the Austrian, however, and this would prove to be fatal.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /mehmed_k%f6pr%fcl%fc.htm (349 words)

	Mehmed I -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed gained some lands in (A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey) Anatolia, which at the time gave him access to the largest source of manpower in the Ottoman lands.
		Mehmed supported his brother Musa in the overthrow and murder of their eldest sibling, Suleiman of (Click link for more info and facts about Rumelia) Rumelia in 1410.
		When Mehmed stood as victor in 1413 he crowned himself as sultan in (A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian) Adrianople ((A city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian) Edirne).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Me/Mehmed_I.htm (224 words)

	SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THE CALLIGRAPHERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed was the grandson of Mustafa Dede, the son of Sheikh Hamdullah.
		Mehmed Giridi was born in Crete and came to Istanbul to study the art of calligraphy He learned calligraphy and received his icazet from Hafiz Osman Effendi, and later engaged in discussions with the calligrapher small bin All of Agakapi on the subject of calligraphy.
		Mehmed Said was a native of Istanbul and resided in the Mahmutpasa district.
	www.ottomansouvenir.com /Calligraphy/Calligraphy_2.htm (2174 words)

	Mehmed VI
		Mehmed VI Mehmed VI, original name Mehmed Vahdettin or Mehmed Vahideddin (January 14 1861 – May 16 1926) was the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918–1922.
		The brother of Mehmed V Resad, he succeeded to the throne due to the suicide of Yusuf Izzetin, the heir to the throne.
		On April 23, the government of Mehmed was denounced and a temporary constitution was affirmed.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/m/me/mehmed_vi.html (277 words)

	Station Information - Mehmed I
		Mehmed I Çelebi (nicknamed Kirisci, the Executioner) was one of the sons of sultan Beyazid I of the Ottoman Empire.
		Mehmed supported his brother Musa in the overthrow and murder of their eldest sibling, Emir Sulaiman of Roumelia in 1410.
		Howvere, as part of hs 1410/1411 alliance, Mehmed recognized the Byzantine Emperor as his "father and overlord" and remained loyal to this anomoly - which must count as the last diplomatic triumph of the Eastern Roman Empire.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mehmed_i.html (209 words)

	Science, civilization and society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ladiqli Mehmed Chelebi was born in Ladiq at Amasya as the son of Abd al-Hamid.
		Discourse 4: The composition of cycles or scales; a definition of the rhythmical cycle; the 12 principal cycles and their names as practised by the ancients and moderns; the two categories of musical instruments stating that the voice belongs to the latter; the accordatura of the lute; basic compositional patterns.
		Most of Mehmed Chelebi's works were written only a few years after Bayezid II had become sultan in 1481 and established the imperial school of music.
	www.incois.gov.in /Tutor/mehmed.html (681 words)

	Mehmed III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed III (May 26, 1566 - December 22, 1603) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.
		Mehmed was an idle ruler, leaving government to his mother (the Valide Sultana).
		The major event of his reign was the Austro-Ottoman War in Hungary (1596-1605).
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/me/mehmed_iii.html (132 words)

	Mehmed VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sultan Mehmed VI Mehmed VI, original name Mehmed Vahdettin or Mehmed Vahideddin (January 14 1861 – May 16 1926) was the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1918–1922.
		The brother of Mehmed V Resad, he succeeded to the throne due to the suicide of, the heir to the throne.
		The nationalists' successes meant that the sultanate was abolished on November 1, 1922, and Mehmet left Constantinople, aboard a British warship on November 17th, bound Mehmed left for exile to Malta, Later Mehmed lived in the Italian Rivera.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mehmed_VI (368 words)

	Mehmed I - Wikipedia
		Mehmed Çelebi nació en Edirne (antigua Adrianópolis, hoy en Bulgaria).
		Mehmed paga al Emperador para que lo haga prisionero.
		Mehmed se pone en campaña para recuperarlos lo mas rápido posible.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmed_I (481 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special \| An officer and an Ottoman gentleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed Ali was not the sultan's first choice, moreover; the sultan tried in vain to remove him from this important province and sent this firman only in recognition of a fait accompli.
		Mehmed Ali was aware of these efforts and was always eager to put an end to his ambivalent situation in Egypt.
		If Mehmed Ali's prime goal was to achieve dynastic rule for himself in Egypt, then Abbas can be seen as loyally protecting his grandfather's legacy, firmly resisting the Porte's attempts to extend its prerogatives of executing convicted criminals who had committed their crimes in Egypt.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/758/special.htm (3421 words)

	yazi1
		Mehmed II is a figure we should take particular caution with because Mehmed II is different things to different people, some of whom would like us to view him as a hero and others consider him to be a barbaric villain.
		On a spring morning, in 1432, Mehmed II was born in the Ottoman capital of Edirne.
		Mehmed’s contradictory behavior on his initial trip into the city has been used by the both his proponents and opponents to help support their claims.
	www.stfrancis.edu /hi/yazi1.htm (1419 words)

	Babinger, F.: Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time.
		From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, the events in the life of the emperor Mehmed II are the subject of this classic biography.
		One of the most important figures in Ottoman history, Mehmed was the architect of victories that inspired fear throughout Europe and contributed to an image of the Turk prevalent in Western art and literature for many years.
		From the Western viewpoint, Mehmed was seen as the man who gave the death blow to Byzantium, destroying the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /titles/5164.html (271 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sultan Mehmed V
		Sultan Mehmed V (1844-1918) served as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1909 until his death in 1918.
		Mehmed was little able to govern of his own accord and thus accepted direction from Young Turk leaders including Enver Pasha.
		Mehmed died on 3 July 1918 in Constantinople at the age of 73.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/mehmedv.htm (320 words)

	MEHMED II FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Mehmed II, or Muhammed II, (also known as ''el-Fatih'', "the Conqueror", in Ottoman_Turkish, or, in modern Turkish, ''Fatih Sultan Mehmed'', sometimes spelled as ''Mehmet'') (March_30, 1432 – May_3, 1481) was first the sultan of the Ottoman_Empire for a short time from 1444 to 1446, and later from 1451 to 1481.
		When Mehmed was 11 years old, as per the custom of Ottoman rulers before his time, he was sent to Amasya to govern and thus gain experience.
		During his first reign, seeing the upcoming Battle_of_Varna, Mehmed sent for his father, Murad_II, asking him to claim the throne again to fight the enemy, only to be refused.
	www.whereintheworldisbush.com /Mehmed_II (844 words)

	Inalcik-policy
		Mehmed II did not wish that the city which he envisaged as the future capital of his empire should pass into his hands, after sack, as a mere heap of ruins.
		Whoever holds by right the center of the Empire is emperor, and the center of the Roman Empire is Istanbul.'' Mehmed II and his successors regarded themselves, through their possession of the throne of the Caesars, as emperors of Rome and legitimate heirs to all the territories which the emperors had formerly ruled.
		It is a prominent characteristic of Mehmed II's policy that he sought to give prime emphasis in state affairs to the principle of 'orf (in Arabic, urf), the executive competence of the ruler, and thus win absolute and unlimited authority for his own decisions, His contemporaries thought that he had pushed the principle too far.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/hst373/readings/inalcik3.html (5913 words)

	Rise of the Ottoman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		During his reign, Mehmed moved the capital from Bursa to Adrianople (Edirne), reinforced control over Bulgaria and Serbia, drove the Mongols from Anatolia and assaulted Albania, Cilicia, the Turkish emirate of Candaroglu and Byzantine controlled areas in southern Greece.
		When in 1451 the bankrupt Byzantines asked Mehmed to double the tribute for holding an Ottoman competitor for the throne, he used the request as a pretext for nulling all treaties with the Empire.
		Mehmed had the city rebuilt as his new capital, turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque and constructing the Topkapi Palace in 1462.
	mywiseowl.com /articles/Rise_of_the_Ottoman_Empire (2340 words)

	mehmed2
		Mehmed II On March 30, 1432, Mehmed II was born in Edirne.
		Mehmed was a young man with great ambition, one year after becoming sultan he declared war on the Byzantine Empire.
		Mehmed rode into the city that afternoon and called for an end to the pillage before it had really gotten into full swing.
	www.stfrancis.edu /hi/webpage/subgroup/mehmed2.html (668 words)

	Mehmed I of Great Seljuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He succeeded his nephew, Malik Shah II, as Seljuk Sultan in Baghdad, and thus was theoretically the head of the dynasty, although his brother Ahmed Sanjar in Khorasan probably held more practical power.
		Mehmed (probably) allied himself with Radwan of Aleppo in a battle against Kilij Arslan I, the sultan of Rüm, near Mosul in 1107, where Kilij Arslan was defeated and later killed.
		Mehmed died in 1118 and was succeeded by Mahmud II, although after Mehmed's death Sanjar was clearly the chief power in the Seljuk realms.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmed_I_of_Great_Seljuk (142 words)

	Iznik: History: Interregnum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Ottoman dominions were thus divided among Bayezid’s three sons: Süleyman based in the Ottoman capital Edirne, Mehmed in Amasya, and Isa in Bursa, all of whom recognised Timur as their suzerain.
		This period in Ottoman history is known as the ‘interregnum’, as the brothers fought a civil war for undivided rule over the empire.
		Mehmed I triumphed in 1413 (Timur died 1405) and adopted conciliatory policies towards all the Ottomans’ former enemies.
	islamicceramics.ashmol.ox.ac.uk /Iznik/interreg.htm (73 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sultan Mehmed VI
		Sultan Mehmed VI (1861-1926) served as the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1918 until his overthrow in 1922.
		Born on 14 January 1861 Mehmed - original name Mehmed Vahideddin - was unlike the brother he succeeded as Sultan, Mehmed V, in that he was both intelligent and politically capable of ruling the Ottoman Empire of his own accord without the backing of the Young Turks.
		Mehmed VI consequently fled to Malta aboard a British warship.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/mehmedvi.htm (442 words)

	mehmed6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mehmed VI After the signing of the 1918 armistice, which ended the hostilities between the Ottomans and the allied powers during World War I, Sultan Mehmed V left power and he was replaced by his younger brother,Mehmed VI.
		Mehmed VI was eager to make peace so he signed the agreement, although it was never ratified by the Ottoman government.
		Mehmed VI was replaced as caliph by his cousin, Abdulmecid II.
	www.stfrancis.edu /hi/mehmed6.htm (239 words)

	Mehmed II Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was also the first Ottoman ruler to claim the title of Caesar of the Roman Empire (supreme ruler of all Christians), besides such usual titles as king, sultan (ruler of a Muslim state), Khan (ruler of Turks), etc.
		Chandarli was later executed by Mehmed during the siege of Istanbul on the grounds that he had been bribed by or had somehow helped the defenders.
		However, Mehmed's advance toward the heart of Europe was stopped by the unsuccessful Siege of Nándorfehérvár in 1456, and in 1475, the Ottomans suffered their worst-ever defeat to that day, at the Battle of Vaslui, in Moldavia.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Mehmed_II (954 words)

	PBS - Islam: Empire of Faith - Profiles - Mehmet
		Not content with their victory alone, Mehmed wanted to complete his mission by establishing the rule of Islam over all the lands once held by the Roman Empire, especially Italy.
		His two law codes, which remained the basis of subsequent Ottoman law for two centuries, dealt with state organization, penal law, and the relations between the state and the military class on the one hand and its taxpaying subjects on the other.
		Mehmed took a personal interest in the arts and learning of Europe, Byzantium, and the Latin West, as well as the traditional arts and literature of Islam.
	www.pbs.org /empires/islam/profilesmehmet.html (248 words)

	Mehmed 2
		It was his father, the abdicated sultan Murad 2 who first defeated the crusaders, and later returned to office in order to bring stability back to the empire.
		While Mehmed's first period as sultan was a flop, his return was a great one, and he is counted among the greatest of the Ottoman sultans.
		The first group he had to take control over, were the Janissaries — a group that had been strong enough to play a crucial part in getting him removed from power 5 years earlier.
	i-cias.com /e.o/s07-mehmed2.htm (575 words)

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