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ottomanladies · 7 years ago
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do you think mahidevran had anything to do with mehmed's death
Absolutely not. He died of some contagious disease. Plague, according to the Manisa annals:
“At the start of the month of Sha`ban in the year 950, on the day when the agha who came bringing glad tidings of the conquest of Usturgun-Belgrade and many other fortresses arrived [in Manisa] and a fireworks celebration ensued, the fortune-blessed prince Sultan Mehmed fell ill. He took to his bed for six days. During the night before the seventh he died.”
and
“Now it was during the spring of this year that the plague appeared, and many families were consumed by the earth.”
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