Reign of Selim I
1512–1520 · Event
Selim the Grim enlarges the empire by some seventy per cent in eight years — crushing the Safavids at Chaldiran and conquering Mamluk Syria, Egypt and the Holy Cities, making the Ottomans guardians of the pilgrimage routes to Mecca and Medina.
On these timelines: Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Islam, Master, Major Religions
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