Turkish sultan (1808-1839) who despite able leadership was unable to prevent further disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.

土耳其苏丹(1808 - 1839年)，尽管他有杰出的领导才能，仍然未能阻止奥斯曼帝国的进一步瓦解。

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In the Battle of Ankara in 1402, Timur, a descendant of Genghis Khan, defeated Bajazid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and took him prisoner.

一四○二年，成吉思汗后人帖木儿在安哥拉一战之中，打败并活捉了鄂图曼帝国的苏丹巴耶塞特。

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Indeed, running a big American firm or a Silicon Valley start-up is now riskier than being grand vizier in the court of the Ottoman sultan.

ECONOMIST: Firing the boss

One reason must have been the attractiveness of his promise to reverse the condition into which history had placed the Jews, a dispersed nation subordinate to both Ottoman sultan and Christian king.

ECONOMIST: Jewish mysticism

On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.

ECONOMIST: The history of the Arabic-speaking peoples