Mehmed I
Mehmed I ( – 26 May 1421), also known as
Mehmed Çelebi (, "the noble-born") or
Kirişçi (, "lord's son"), was the
sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan
Bayezid I and his concubine
Devlet Hatun, he fought with his brothers over control of the Ottoman realm in the
Ottoman Interregnum (1402–1413). Starting from the province of
Rûm he managed to bring first
Anatolia and then the European territories (
Rumelia) under his control, reuniting the Ottoman state by 1413, and ruling it until his death in 1421. Called "The Restorer," he reestablished central authority in Anatolia, and he expanded the Ottoman presence in Europe by the conquest of
Wallachia in 1415. Venice destroyed his fleet off
Gallipoli in 1416 as the Ottomans lost a naval war.
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