Bayezid II

The 8th sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Succeeding his father Mehmed II, he ruled from 1481 to 1512. He worked to stabilize the empire's administration and finances while seeking to expand its sphere of influence into the Mediterranean. He is also known for welcoming Sephardic Jews into the Ottoman Empire after the fall of the Kingdom of Granada in Spain in 1492 and the issuance of the Alhambra Decree. In his final years, he lost a succession struggle to his son Selim and abdicated.

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Year	Bayezid II
1448	Birth of Bayezid II (Period: December 3, 1447, or 1448 (accounts vary), Location: Didymoteicho, Greece (formerly Dimetoka))
1480	Ottoman-Polish Conflict (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1480s–early 1500s. Military clashes occurred in the Moldavian direction in 1497, Location: Moldavia, northern Black Sea coast, East European borderlands) Strengthening Naval Power in the Mediterranean (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1480s–1503, Location: Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Greek coast)
1481	Cem Sultan's War of Succession (Bayezid II, Age: 32 years old, Period: 1481–1495, Location: Anatolia, Rhodes, Rome, Naples) Governance of the Empire and Stabilization of Administration (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1481–1512, Location: Entire Ottoman Empire) Accession to the 8th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Age: 32 years old, Period: May 1481, Location: Ottoman Empire, Istanbul)
1485	Ottoman-Mamluk War (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1485–1491, Location: Southern Anatolia, Cilicia, northern Syria)
1492	Reception of Sephardic Jews from Spain (Age: 43 years old, Period: After 1492, Location: Spain, Istanbul (Ottoman territory), Thessaloniki, etc.) Protection of Jewish Immigrants from Spain (Bayezid II, Age: 43 years old, Period: After 1492, Location: Ottoman territories, especially Istanbul and Thessaloniki)
1499	Second Ottoman-Venetian War (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1499–1503, Location: Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula, Greece)
1500	Rise of the Safavid Dynasty and Anatolian Rebellions (Age: 51 years old, Period: Early 1500s – around 1511, Location: Eastern and Central Anatolia)
1511	War of Succession with Son Selim (Bayezid II, Age: 62 years old, Period: 1511–1512, Location: Anatolia, Istanbul)
1512	Abdication of Bayezid II (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1512, Location: Capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul, and migration route after abdication) Death of Bayezid II (Age: 63 years old, Period: May 26, 1512) Death and Burial (Age: 63 years old, Period: May 26, 1512, Location: Near Havsa (around Havsa, Edirne Province, Turkey). Burial site is the Bayezid II Mosque in Istanbul)
Unknown	Marriage (Bayezid II, Şirin Hatun, Hüsnüşah Hatun, Bülbül Hatun, Nigar Hatun, Gülruh Hatun, Gülbahar Hatun, Ferahşad Hatun, etc., Period: Thought to be late 15th to early 16th century, but exact dates of individual marriages are unknown, Location: Believed to be within Ottoman territories, but specific locations of each marriage are unknown)

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Group	List
Ottoman Empire	Mehmed II Bayezid II Selim I Suleiman I Selim II Murad III Mehmed III Ahmed I Murad IV Mehmed IV Mustafa II Ahmed III
Safavid dynasty	Suleiman I Abbas I Shah Ismail I Tahmasp I Ismail II Safi I Abbas II Sultan Hossein Nader Shah
Trade and Diplomacy	Piri Reis Hayreddin Pasha Turgut Reis Aruj Reis Abbas I Anthony Shirley Robert Shirley Jean Chardin Pietro della Valle William Baffin

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