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bs: Albert II ( čvor )

bs: Ahmed II

bs: Bajazid II

bs: Mehmed II

bs: Murat II

bs: Marija II, kraljica Engleske

bs: Osman II

bs: Papa Aleksandar II

bs: Papa Klement II

bs: Papa Siksto II

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bs: Filip II, kralj Francuske

bs: Rudolf II, car Svetog rimskog carstva

bs: Stjepan II ( čvor )

bs: Vilim II, kralj Engleske

bs: Maksimilijan II, car Svetog rimskog carstva

bs: Knut II, kralj Danske

bs: Ludovik II, kralj Ugarske

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bs: Karlo II, car Svetog rimskog carstva

bs: Filip II Makedonski

bs: Filip II, kralj Kastilje

bs: Leopold II, kralj Belgijanaca

bs: Boleslav II ( čvor )

During his reign, Bayezid II consolidated the Ottoman Empire and thwarted a Safavid rebellion soon before abdicating his throne to his son, Selim I.

Bayezid II married Ayşe Hatun, a convert of Greek ethnicity, who was the mother of Selim I.

The Mamluk province of Bilad a-Sham ( Syria ) was conquered by Turkish Sultan Selim II in 1516 – 17, becoming a part of the province of Ottoman Syria for the next four centuries, first as the Damascus Eyalet and later as the Syria Vilayet ( following the Tanzimat reorganization of 1864 ).

* 1524 – Selim II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1574 )

Born in Bozdağan or Manisa, Murad III was the eldest son of sultan Selim II ( 1566 – 74 ), and succeeded his father in 1574.

The power had only been maintained under Selim II by the genius of the all-powerful Grand Vizier Mehmed Sokollu who remained in office until his assassination in October 1579.

A highly ambitious plan to counter this conceived by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier under Selim II, in the shape of a Don-Volga canal ( begun June 1569 ), combined with an attack on Astrakhan, failed, the canal being abandoned with the onset of winter.

Their son, Selim II, succeeded Suleiman following his death in 1566 after 46 years of rule.

Sinan became responsible for over three hundred monuments throughout the empire, including his two masterpieces, the Süleymaniye and Selimiye mosques — the latter built in Adrianople ( now Edirne ) in the reign of Suleiman's son Selim II.

Selim II ( Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى Selīm-i < u > s </ u > ānī, Turkish: II. Selim ; 28 May 1524 – 12 December / 15 December 1574 ), also known as " Selim the Sot ( Mest )" or " Selim the Drunkard "; and as " Sarı Selim " or " Selim the Blond ", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.

Ottoman miniature | Turkish miniature of Selim II.

After gaining the throne after palace intrigue and fraternal dispute, succeeded as Sultan on 7 September 1566, Selim II became the first Sultan devoid of active military interest and willing to abandon power to his ministers, provided he was left free to pursue his orgies and debauches.

Sultan Selim II receiving the Safavid ambassador in the palace at Edirne in 1567

16th century copy of the 1569 Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire | Capitulations between Charles IX of France | Charles IX and Selim II.