Sultan of Turkey (1876-1909) born in Topkapi Palace, Constantinople, Turkey, deposed by the Young Turk rebellion. Son of Abdul Mejid I, he assumed the Ottoman throne (1876) when the Turkish Empire included Anatolia, the Balkans, Greece, Bulgaria, the Levant (Syria and Palestine), Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula and the North African. His rule was characterized by serious internal rivalries and external military threats, which weakened his Empire.
Despite her resistance to constitutional changes, many educational and administrative reforms accelerated during her reign. He created the University of Istanbul (1900), invested in the railway network and telegraph services. Under pressure from the Young Turk movement (1909), he was deposed by the Ottoman senate. The new government under the leadership of Enver Pasha, led the Ottomans into World War I on the side of Germany and Austria, with disastrous consequences. He died on Bosphorus and was buried in Constantinople.
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Order A - Biography - Brazil School
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