Selim The Grim

Investigate the achievements of this most fearsome and pivotal of Ottoman rulers. Learn how Selim vanquished the threate... (more)

Investigate the achievements of this most fearsome and pivotal of Ottoman rulers. Learn how Selim vanquished the threatening Safavid Empire after violently wresting power from his father. Track his dramatic expansionist policy, tripling the Ottoman territories in less than a decade, and his defeat of the Egyptian Mamluks, becoming the first Ottoman Caliph. (less)