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A medallion believed to feature the earliest Western portrait of an Islamic ruler ... a man regarded as one of the greatest Ottoman sultans, who oversaw an empire that stretched from central ...

Diyarbakır held a strategic position during the time of the Mamluk Sultanate. The city was loyal to the Mamluks and was under their control. When the Ottoman-Mamluk wars began, S ...