OLLI Workshop: History of the Middle East

Leader: Theo Pavlidis (t.pavlidis@ieee.org)

Handout No. 2 - February 13, 2012

All in the Family

The ancestry of the early Ottoman Sultans: The name of each sultan is in a rectangle and the ethnicity of the wife who was the mother of the sultan's successor (in other words the Valide Sultana) is in an ellipse. The range in years is the approximate period of the reign of each sultan.

Image in color and information about the source can be found in Chapter 13 on the web.


1326-1361


1361-1389


1389-1402


1413-1421


1421-1451


1451-1481


1481-1512


1512-1520


1520-1566