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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

Hanna presented herself as a wealthy, illegitimate daughter of the sultan of Brunei, initially showering Hornigold, his then-partner Heather Kaniuk and his friends with lavish gifts, from cars to homes.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026

The sultan announced the engagement in October of Mateen and Anisha, who is the granddaughter of the ruler’s special advisor.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

The sultan agreed and gave Scheherazade until dawn.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

Over the course of two and a half centuries, different parts of the empire were subject to decrees issued by many sultans, often substantially different from one another and sometimes contradictory.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Hugh's family was hobnobbing with chiefs and sultans while I ate hush puppies at the Sanitary Fish Market in Morehead City, a beach towel wrapped like a hijab around my head.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris