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Lesson 51
key people
Question | Answer |
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Osman | the leader of the Ottoman Turks, and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire. |
Gracia Mendes Nasi | one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. She married into the eminent international banking and finance dynasty of Mendes, and was the aunt of Joseph Nasi, who became a prominent figure in the politics of the Ottoman Empire. |
Selim | was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520. |
Sinān | the chief Ottoman architect and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman I, Selim II and Murad III. He was, during a period of fifty years, responsible for the construction or the supervision of every major building in the Ottoman Empire. |
Suleiman I | was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, whose empiire streched from hungery in the north to egypt in the south. |
Mehmed | Conquerer of the cupturing of contantinople. |
Beyazid | was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire ascended to the throne following the death of his father Murad I in the first Battle of Kosovo, who was killed by Serbian Noblemen Miloš Obilić on June 29 1389. |