Mehmed VI
Also known as Mehmed VI Vahideddin, Mehmet VI, Mehmet Vahdettin, Mehmed Vahdettin, Mehmed Vahideddin
36th and last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1918–1922)
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Mehmed VI was the final sultan to rule the Ottoman Empire, serving from 1918 until 1922 during a period of dramatic decline and collapse following World War I. His reign matters historically because it marked the end of over 600 years of Ottoman rule and the transition to the modern nation-state of Turkey.
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- 1861
- Died
- 1926
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Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Ottoman Turkish: محمد سادس, romanized: Meḥmed-i sâdis, or وحيد الدين, Vaḥîdü'd-Dîn; Turkish: VI. Mehmed or Vahideddin, also spelled as Vahidettin; 14 January 1861 – 16 May 1926), also known as Şahbaba (lit. 'Emperor-father') among the Osmanoğlu family, was the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the penultimate Ottoman caliph, reigning from 4 July 1918 until 1 November 1922, when the Ottoman Sultanate was abolished and replaced by the Republic of Turkey on 29 October 1923.
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