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A Manisa register indicates that she did, however, visit Mehmed in 1543. The same year, she also visited her younger son, Prince Selim, in Karaman. [15] His only child, Hümaşah Sultan [16] was born in 1543 in Manisa. [17] Evliya Çelebi describes Mehmed as a "prince of more exquisite qualities than even Mustafa. He had a piercing intellect ...
Mehmed was born at the Manisa Palace on 26 May 1566, during the reign of his great-grandfather, Suleiman the Magnificent.He was the son of Murad III, himself the son of Selim II, who was the son of Sultan Suleiman and Hurrem Sultan.
In 1446, while Murad II returned to the throne, Mehmed retained the title of sultan but only acted as a governor of Manisa. Following the death of Murad II in 1451, Mehmed II became sultan for the second time. Ibrahim II of Karaman invaded the disputed area and instigated various revolts against Ottoman rule.
On 16 June 1541, he was transferred to Amasya, [2] [7] [14] [17] where his son, Şehzade Mehmed was born in 1546. [18] Mustafa likely perceived the clear preference given to his half-brothers as evident in his removal from the governorship in Manisa, a favoured position for Ottoman princes.
Manisa was one of the first cities in the Ottoman Empire to benefit from the arrival of a railway line, with the 93 km (58 mi) Smyrna Cassaba Railway, whose construction was started from Smyrna in 1863 and which reached its first terminus at Manisa's depending Kasaba in 1866. This railway was the third started within the territory of the ...
Ahmed was born at the Manisa Palace, Manisa, probably on 18 April 1590, [4] [5] when his father Şehzade Mehmed was still a prince and the governor of the Sanjak of Manisa. His mother was Handan Sultan. After his grandfather Murad III's death in 1595, his father came to Constantinople and ascended the throne as Sultan Mehmed III. Mehmed ordered ...
Handan became one of Mehmed's esteemed concubines in Manisa having possibly given birth to two sons, other than Ahmed I, Prince Selim and Prince Süleyman, and two daughters. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Handan had an ally in Raziye Hatun , a harem staff member who had helped her to became Mehmed's favorite.
The battle started after Mehmed II, who already had tense relations with Vlad, discovered his alliance with Hungary's king Matthias Corvinus and ordered his forces to ambush him. Vlad foiled the attack and invaded Bulgaria. In response, Mehmed raised a great army with the objective to conquer Wallachia.