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| | Selim II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Selim II (May 28, 1524 – December 12, 1574) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death. |
 | | Fortunately for the empire, an able grand vizier, Mehmed Sokollu, was at the head of affairs, and two years after Selim's accession succeeded in concluding at Constantinople an honourable treaty with the Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperoremperor Maximilian II, whereby the emperor agreed to pay an annual "present" of 30,000 ducats (February 17, 1568/). |
 | | Little can be said of this degenerate son of Suleiman, who during the eight years of his reign never girded on the sword of Osman, and preferred the clashing of wine-goblets to the shock of arms, save that with the dissolute tastes of his mother, Aleksandra Lisowska, he had not inherited her ferocity. |
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