Selim I Yavuz "The Grim"

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Vlad Tepes the "Grave"

>May your sword always be sharp and your reign always be firm, but may your back crumble under the pressure

What did Bayezid II mean by this?

>>1962192
means he got fcucked by based timur

>>1963488
That was another bayezid.

>>1963496
This

Bayezid I was the one who got defeated by Timur. Bayezid II came after Mehmed the Conqueror and was the father of Selim. >>1962192 are said to be his final words as a sultan, just before Selim forced his abdication.

>>1961334
he was a man of simplicity. he would consider this kind of dress as woman' dress and he even bantered with his only suleiman son about suleiman's gaudy choices. yavuz lycurgus type guy but without the homo fag greek stuff that comes with it.

>>1962192
its something like "may you have so much gold that your back barely holds it" ottoman sultans loved persian poems it must be an effort related to this

>>1963976
It's more that he wished him best of luck as a ruler, while also cursing him as a person, since he forced Bayezid to abdicate.

>>1963992
ghhah oh no