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Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?”
Selim I, who was nicknamed “the Grim” was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire from 1512-20. Despite his short reign, he is comfortably one of the most famous of all the Ottoman Sultans.
Did the Turks obstruct the sea route to the East?
Turkish archival documents show that the Algerian sultanate sought help from the Ottoman Empire against Spanish occupation in ...