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Sensing opportunity, Mehmed II, the Ottoman sultan, arrived at the walls of Constantinople on April 5.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

British troops had been sent there, along with the French, to defend the Ottoman sultan from the predations of Russian Czar Nicholas I.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Words such as "sultan" and "shrine" are disappearing from place names - to be replaced with terms such as "harmony" and "happiness", according to the research, which is based on China's own published data.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024

But the call with the sultan is particularly notable considering Chinese interests in the country.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2023

What was Salim doing with their money, living like a sultan in America?

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

After independence from British colonial rule in 1957, the order of rotation among the sultans was determined by seniority, based on how long they had been ruling.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023

Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, director of the German Marshall Fund in Ankara, said the relationship’s dual nature dates back to the sultans and czars.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023

Malaysia's sultans play a largely ceremonial role, including acting as custodians of Islam in the Muslim-majority country, and are held in deep respect.

From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2023

First, the Janissaries slowly devolved from elite soldiers and bureaucrats to parasites, living in lavish “barracks” in Constantinople, manipulating weak sultans, and spending more time enriching themselves in commerce than serving the state.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

One summer day, I used one of Ali’s kitchen knives to carve our names on it: “Amir and Hassan, the sultans of Kabul.”

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini