| Mehmed I | |||||
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 Miniature of Mehmed I from 16th century manuscript | |||||
| Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah) | |||||
| Reign | 5 July 1413 – 26 May 1421 | ||||
| Predecessor | Interregnum (1402–1413) Bayezid I | ||||
| Successor | Murad II | ||||
| Co-rulers (claimants) | See list
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| Sultan of Anatolia | |||||
| Reign | 1403 – 5 July 1413 | ||||
| Born | c. 1386 Bursa, Ottoman Sultanate | ||||
| Died | 26 May 1421 (aged 34–35) Bursa, Ottoman Sultanate | ||||
| Burial | Green Tomb, Bursa, Turkey | ||||
| Consorts | Emine Hatun Şahzade Hatun Kumru Hatun | ||||
| Issue Among others | Murad II Selçuk Hatun Mustafa Çelebi | ||||
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| Dynasty | Ottoman | ||||
| Father | Bayezid I | ||||
| Mother | Devlet Hatun | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam[1][2] | ||||
| Tughra |  | ||||
Mehmed I (c. 1386/7 – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi (Ottoman Turkish: چلبی محمد, "the noble-born") or Kirişçi (Greek: Κυριτζής, romanized: Kyritzis, "lord's son"),[3] was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan Bayezid I and his concubine Devlet Hatun, he fought with his brothers over control of the Ottoman realm in the Ottoman Interregnum (1402–1413). Starting from the province of Rûm he managed to bring first Anatolia and then the European territories (Rumelia) under his control, reuniting the Ottoman state by 1413, and ruling it until his death in 1421. Called "The Restorer," he reestablished central authority in Anatolia, and he expanded the Ottoman presence in Europe by the conquest of Wallachia in 1415. Venice destroyed his fleet off Gallipoli in 1416 as the Ottomans lost a naval war.[4]
- ^ The Essential World History, Volume II: Since 1500. By William J. Duiker, Jackson J. Spielvogel
- ^ The Rise of Turkey: The Twenty-First Century's First Muslim Power. By Soner Cagaptay
- ^ İnalcık 1991, p. 973.
- ^ , R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy, The encyclopedia of military history (1977) pp 437–439.