Ruler · 1470 to 1520

Selim I

In eight years he defeated the Safavids at Chaldiran and destroyed the Mamluk sultanate, bringing Syria, Egypt, Makkah and Madinah under Ottoman rule.

At a glance

Lived: 1470 to 1520
Role: Ruler
Dynasty: Ottoman Sultans
Era: Three gunpowder empires
Chapter: 5. The Ottomans

Battles

1514
Battle of Chaldiran
Ottoman victory. Ottoman guns beat the Safavid cavalry and Selim took Tabriz.
1516
Battle of Marj Dabiq
Ottoman victory. The Mamluk sultan died on the field and Syria passed to the Ottomans.
1517
Battle of Ridaniya
Ottoman victory. Egypt fell and the Mamluk sultanate ended.

Selim I's world

1683: Three gunpowder empires

Mehmed II took Constantinople in 1453. Selim I conquered Egypt in 1517 and the caliphate passed to the Ottomans. Suleiman won at Mohacs in 1526, and a second siege of Vienna failed in 1683. Further east, Safavid Iran and the Mughals of India ruled at the same time.

See the 1683 map Read chapter 5

People of the same era

Babur Akbar Aurangzeb Alamgir Tipu Sultan Osman I Mehmed II, the Conqueror Suleiman the Magnificent Hayreddin Barbarossa

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