The European educated and progressive Sultan of Turkey, Abdülmecid I, died of tuberculosis in Constantinople, aged thirty-nine, and was succeeded as Caliph by his brother, Abdülaziz. He had reigned for twenty-years during which he instituted reforms and fostered diplomatic ties with European powers and led the Ottoman Empire during the Crimean War. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Chronicle, The Annual Register or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1861 (London: F. & J. Rivington, 1862), p. 493.
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