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• SELIM

SELIM I  . (1465-1521) succeeded in 1512 his See also:

• FATHER

father Bayezid II., whom he dethroned, and whose See also:

• DEATH

death, following immediately afterwards, gave rise to suspicions which See also:

• SELIM

Selim's See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character certainly justified . He signalized his See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession by putting to death his See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers and nephews; and gave See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof of See also:

• RESOLUTION

resolution by boldly cutting down before their troops two See also:

• OFFICERS

officers who showed signs of insubordination . A bigoted Sunni, he resolved on putting See also:

• DAWN (the 16th-century form of the earlier " Jawing " or " dawning," from an old verb " daw," O. Eng. dagian, to become day; cf. Dutch dagen, and Ger. tagen)

dawn the Shiite See also:

• HERESY

heresy, which had gained many adherents in See also:

• TURKEY

Turkey: the number of these was estimated as high as 40,000 . Selim determined on See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war with See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, where the heresy was the prevalent See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion, and in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order that the See also:

• SHIITES (from Arab. shi`a, a party, and then a sect)

Shiites in Turkey should give no trouble during the war, " See also:

• MEASURES

measures were taken," as the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish historian states, which may be explained as the reader desires, and which proved fully efficacious . The See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign which followed was a See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph for Selim, whose firmness and courage overcame the pusillanimity and insubordination of the See also:

• JANISSARIES (corrupted from Turkish yeni cheri, new troops)

Janissaries . See also:

• SYRIA

Syria and See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt next See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell before him; he became See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the See also:

• HOLY

holy cities of See also:

• ISLAM

Islam; and, most important of all, he induced the last See also:

• CALIPH, CALIF

Caliph of the Abbasid See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty formally to surrender the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of caliph (q.v.), as well as its outward emblems, viz. the holy See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard, the See also:

• SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword and the See also:

• MANTLE

mantle of the See also:

• PROPHET (Irpo4i ri7s)

prophet . The dignity with which the See also:

• OTTOMAN

Ottoman sultans have thereby become invested lends them that See also:

• PRESTIGE

prestige throughout the Mussulman See also:

• WORLD

world which is of such importance to the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, and which has thrown into oblivion the See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition that the caliph ought to be an Arab of the tribe of Koreish . After his return from his See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian campaign, he was preparing an expedition against See also:

• RHODES
• RHODES, CECIL JOHN (1853-1902)
• RHODES, JAMES FORD

Rhodes when he was overtaken by sickness and died, on the 22nd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1521, in the ninth See also:

• YEAR

year of his reign, near the very spot where he hadattacked his father's troops, not far from See also:

• ADRIANOPLE
• ADRIANOPLE (anc. Hadrianopolis; Turk. Edirne, or Edreneh; Slay. Odrin)

Adrianople . He was about fifty-five years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age . He was bigoted, bloodthirsty and relentless, though one Turkish historian praises his humanity for having forbidden the cutting up alive of .condemned persons, or the roasting of them before a slow See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire; and at one See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time he was with difficulty dissuaded from ordering the See also:

• COMPLETE

complete extirpation of all the Christians in Turkey . His ambition was insatiable; he is said to have exclaimed when looking at a See also:

• MAP
• MAP (or MAPES), WALTER (d. c. 1208/9)

map that the whole world did not See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a See also:

• SOVEREIGNTY

sovereignty vast enough for one monarch .

His four months' victorious campaign against Persia was undertaken and successfully carried through contrary to the See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice of his ministers, several of whom he executed for their opposition to his plans; and he achieved an enterprise which neither Jenghiz See also:

• KHAN (from the Turki, hence Persian and Arabic Khan)

Khan nor Timur was able to carry out . It is said that he contemplated the See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and that he was the first to conceive the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of the See also:

• SUEZ

Suez See also:

• CANAL
• CANAL (from Lat. canalis, " channel " and " kennel " being doublets of the word)

Canal .