Ruler · 1842 to 1918
Abdulhamid II
Ruled for 33 years, promoted the caliphate to Muslims worldwide and built the Hijaz Railway to Madinah. He is remembered for rejecting Zionist offers for Palestine, and was deposed by the Young Turks in 1909.
At a glance
- Lived
- 1842 to 1918
- Role
- Ruler
- Dynasty
- Ottoman Sultans
- Era
- The end of the caliphate
- Chapter
- 5. The Ottomans
Abdulhamid II's world
1923: The end of the caliphate
The Ottomans entered the First World War on Germany's side and lost. Britain and France divided the Arab lands under the Sykes-Picot agreement and the mandates that followed, and British troops entered Jerusalem in December 1917. In Anatolia, Mustafa Kemal won the war of independence and declared a republic in October 1923.
People of the same era
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