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Bayezit II 1448-1512
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born in Thrace, he succeeded his father, Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople (Istanbul), in 1481. During his reign a succession of wars against Hungary, Poland, Venice, Egypt and Persia (Iran) served, on the whole, to establish Ottoman power in the Balkans, Asia Minor and the eastern Mediterranean.