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Assassinated caliphs
- AliAli ibn Abi Talib was born around 600 CE, by tradition possibly inside the Ka'ba in Mecca, the holiest site of Islam. He was the cousin and son-in-law of the…
- Selim IIIOn the 24th of December 1761, a boy named Selim was born into the Topkapı Palace. His mother Mihrişah Sultan was an ethnic Georgian who later reformed…