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Selim I Yavuz

Selim I Yavuz, the caliph of the Ottoman caliphate, ruling 1512–1520 CE.

Reign · Ottoman Empire · no. 1 in the chain · 1512–1520 CE

Ruled the caliphate

Events of the reign

Algiers enters Ottoman sovereignty (1519)

In early Dhu'l-Qa'da 925/October–November 1519 the notables of Algiers, at Khayr al-Din's order, sent the jurist Ahmad b. Qadi to Sultan Selim I with a letter (Topkapı archive no. 4656) asking to bind the city to the Ottoman state. Selim answered with the rank of beylerbey, artillery and 2,000 Janissaries; his name entered the pulpits and the coinage, and Algiers became the first North African province under Ottoman sovereignty — an entry al-Salabi stresses was by the inhabitants' appeal, not against their will.
The battle of Chaldiran and the entry into Tabriz

Chaldiran, August 1514 — Selim forced the issue before winter, sent the shah a dervish's cloak, beads, bowl and staff to mock his Sufi lineage, killed his envoy, then crushed the Safavid army and entered Tabriz; Kurdistan and Diyarbakir became Ottoman.
Battle of Beirut

Draft card for Battle of Beirut; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Dabil (1517)

Draft card for Battle of Dabil (1517); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Dubica

Draft card for the Battle of Dubica in 1513, the Ottoman-Croatian clash; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Kerh (1516)

Draft card for the Battle of Kerh in 1516, an action of Selim I's war with the Safavids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Koçhisar

Draft card for the Battle of Koçhisar in 1516, Selim I's victory over the Qizilbash on the road to Chaldiran; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Ovacık

Draft card for the Battle of Ovacık in 1515, Baba Zun'un's defeat of the Qizilbash rebels; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Sinjar (1516)

Draft card for Battle of Sinjar (1516); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Turnadag

Draft card for the Battle of Turnadag in 1515, the Ottoman defeat of the Dulkadir amir Ala al-Dawla Bozkurt; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Yaunis Khan

Draft card for the Battle of Yaunis Khan in 1516, Selim I's victory over Qansuh al-Ghuri's army opening Gaza; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battle of Yenişehir (1513)

Draft card for the Battle of Yenişehir in 1513, Selim I's decisive victory over his brother Ahmed; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Battles for Diyarbakir (1514)

Draft card for the battles for Diyarbakir in 1514–15, the Ottoman taking of the region from the Safavids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Capture of Aleppo

Draft card for the Capture of Aleppo in 1516, the city's absorption into Selim's empire after Marj Dabiq; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Capture of Damascus

Draft card for the Capture of Damascus in 1516, Selim's entry and Janbirdi al-Ghazali's flight; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Fall of Tlemcen

Draft card for the Fall of Tlemcen in 1518, Aruj Barbarossa's capture of the Zayyanid capital and his death that year; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War

Draft card for the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War, the long chain of border wars between Croatia and the Ottomans; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
The Battle of Marj Dabiq and Selim's Entry into Egypt

In his colophon Suyuti's student Jaramard al-Nasiri names the ninth century's calamity: Selim Shah ibn Uthman — his wars on his brothers and their killing 'the worst of killings, leaving none great or small', his breaking of the lord of the East and killing of Ali Dawlat, then meeting Egypt's host and sultan at Marj Dabiq, killing the sultan and his great amirs, then entering Egypt 'in the swiftest state and shortest time' — a blow, he says, beside which the Tatars' and Timur's calamities seem small, for they never entered Egypt.
Mir Muhammad’s conquest of East Anatolia

Draft card for Mir Muhammad’s conquest of East Anatolia; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–17

Draft card for the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1516–1517, Selim I's campaigns at Marj Dabiq and Raydaniyya that ended the Mamluk sultanate; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Selim I's accession, 918/1512

Al-Salabi dates Bayezid II's cession of the sultanate to his son Selim I at 18 Safar 918 / 25 April 1512; Ibn al-Imad adds that Selim contested the ailing father for the throne, that he yielded it, then died near Guria.
Serbian–Ottoman Wars

Draft card for the Serbian–Ottoman wars of 1352–1913, the centuries of Serb–Ottoman conflict; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Bayburt (1514)

Draft card for the Siege of Bayburt in 1514, the Ottoman capture from the Safavids before Chaldiran; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Gwalior (1518)

Draft card for Siege of Gwalior (1518); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Harput (1516)

Draft card for the Siege of Harput in 1516, of Selim I's war with the Safavids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Kemah (1515)

Draft card for the Siege of Kemah in 1515, the Ottoman reduction of the fortress in the Dulkadir–Safavid campaign; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Mardin (1516)

Draft card for Siege of Mardin (1516); its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Mosul

Draft card for the Siege of Mosul in 1517, the city's absorption into Selim's empire after Marj Dabiq; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Yenibahce Uprising (1512)

Draft card for Yenibahce Uprising (1512); its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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