Mehmed I Çelebi
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c. 1389 – 1421 · 32 years · Bursa · Middle East
Reign: 1413 – 1421 (Ottoman Empire)
The youngest son of Bayezid I, he defeated his brothers in the civil war of 1402–1413 and restored the unity of the Ottoman state; he built the Green Mosque in Bursa.
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