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Which Sultan Was The Greatest Sultan-Selim The Grim

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Which Sultan Was the Greatest?

The Greatest Sultan- Selim the Grim

Selim got his name "the grim" because he murdered all his male relatives so his son Suleyman could be the only heir to the throne but apart from his well gruesome name Selim was clearly the greatest sultan to emerge from the Ottoman Empire. Son of Bayezid II, with amazing military skill and producing an amazing heir to the empire, who later ruled as great as his father, he made a great ruler of this vast ever expanding expire. He reigned from 1512 to 1520 succeeded by his son. During those years he took many important territories and worked to expand the empire up until his death. As a man he was very humble, eating as a lower citizen and did not like vanity.

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