wiki-illiam #104: q6

[dubdobdee]

Q6: Who:
i: was Foolish?
ii: was Rodrigo de Borja y Borja?
iii: invested Henry Sinclair as Earl of Orkney?
iv: had a half-sister sired by his father's physician?
v: founded a Siamese school, which was later named in his honour?
vi: was born on the 34th annversary of the death of his great grandfather and the 17th of that of his great aunt?
vii: was the offspring of parents sharing the same grandmother?
viii: was the 36th and last in a line started in 1299?
ix: was blinded by his mother Irene?
x: was tripartite?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

spoilers: er er i think emperor constantine's mum was called irene and bullied him, and "all gaul is divided into three part -- all? no!" but i'm not sure either of these is right -- i feel the answers are mostly royal

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

The Ottoman Dynasty (or the Imperial House of Osman) (Turkish: Osmanlı Hanedanı) ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922... The Sultanate was abolished on November 1, 1922, and the last sultan, Mehmed VI Vahdettin (reigned 1918–1922), left the country on November 17, 1922.


In 1601 Sultan Mehmed III was called: Sultan Hân N.N., Padishah, Hünkar, Hakan ül-Berreyn vel-Bahreyn; Sovereign of the House of Osman, Sultan of Sultans, Khan of Khans, Commander (Caliph) of the Faithful and Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe, Custodian of the Holy Cities of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem, Caesar of the Roman Empire, Emperor of The Three Cities of Constantinople, Adrianople and Bursa, and of the Cities of Damascus and Cairo, of all Azerbaijan, of the Magris, of Barka, of Kairouan, of Aleppo, of Arabic Iraq and of Acem, of Basra, of Al-Hasa, of Dilen, of Ar Raqqah, of Mosul, of Parthia, of Diyarbakır, of Cilicia, of the Vilayets of Erzurum, of Sivas, of Adana, of Karaman, Van, of Barbary, of Abyssinia, of Tunisia, of Tripoli, of Damascus, of Cyprus, of Rhodes, of Candia, of the Vilayet of the Morea, of the Marmara Sea, the Black Sea and also its coasts, of Anatolia, of Rumelia, Baghdad, Greece, Turkistan, Tartary, Circassia, of the two regions of Kabarda, of Georgia, of the plain of Kypchak, of the whole country of the Tartars, of Kefe and of all the neighboring countries, of Bosnia and its dependencies, of the City and Fort of Belgrade, of the Vilayet of Serbia, with all the castles, forts and cities, of all Albania, of all Eflak and Bogdania, as well as all the dependencies and borders, and many other countries and cities.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ha, you must have been pretty rubbish to be part of the "many other countries and cities" bit...

no i dear

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Osmanlı Hanedanı

what are those strange dotless i's?

Re: no i dear

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

A type of vowel in Turkish. I think it's some kind of schwa sound. The capital of Azerbaijan is apparently preferably spelled Bakı rather than Baku iirc.

(A corollary is that Turkish has a capital I with dot, which corresponds to i, so I =/= i there.