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Mahmud ii biography of william hill

          Although his period of reign, (31 years), was very long, Mahmud II was one of the most ignored Sultans of the nineteenth century....

          Summary of the Remainder of Mahmud's Life.

        1. Summary of the Remainder of Mahmud's Life.
        2. 67Sultan Mahmud II, an admirer of his elder cousin, Selim III, wanted to continue the latter's modernization project, seeking the establishment of a strong.
        3. Although his period of reign, (31 years), was very long, Mahmud II was one of the most ignored Sultans of the nineteenth century.
        4. Ottoman history is the history of the Ottoman Empire.
        5. The Sultan's Gaze: Power and Ceremony in the Imperial Portraiture Campaign of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r.

          6. Mahmud II

          Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 to 1839

          Not to be confused with Mehmed II.

          For other uses, see Mahmud II (disambiguation).

          Mahmud II (Ottoman Turkish: محمود ثانى, romanized: Maḥmûd-u s̠ânî, Turkish: II.

          Mahmud; 20 July 1785 – 1 July 1839) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1808 until his death in 1839. Often described as the "Peter the Great of Turkey",[2] Mahmud instituted extensive administrative, military, and fiscal reforms.

          His disbandment of the conservative Janissary corps removed a major obstacle to his and his successors' reforms in the Empire. Mahmud's reign was also marked by further Ottoman military defeat and loss of territory as a result of nationalist uprisings and European intervention.

          Mahmud ascended the throne following an 1808 coup which deposed his half-brother Mustafa IV. Early in his reign, the Ottoman Empire ceded Bessarabia to Russia at the end of the 1806–1812 Russo-Turkish War. Greece waged a successfu