Bayezid II was the son of Mehmed II(1432-1481)
and Emine Gülbahar Hatun.
In came the Ottomans, and in 1492 Sultan Bayezid II sent the Ottoman Navy to rescue
and help evacuate 150,000 jews from the Spanish Inquisition.
Bayezid I(Ottoman Turkish:
بايزيد اول; Turkish: I. Bayezid, Yıldırım Bayezid(nicknamed Yıldırım(Ottoman Turkish: یلدیرم),"Lightning, Thunderbolt"); 1360- 8 March 1403) was the Ottoman Sultan from 1389 to 1402.
Bayezid wasn't simply interested in being kind to Jewish refugees,
however- he also saw the rescue as an opportunity, as the Jewish community had established themselves as intellectual elites.
However, it could have been built in 1503,
when Sultan Bayezid II was considering building a bridge on the Golden Horn
and solicited none other than Leonard de Vinci to design it.
When Spain's Catholic monarchy banned all Jews from the country in 1492 and began a systemic persecution of Jewish people,
Muslim Sultan Bayezid sent the Ottoman navy to Spain to rescue them.
When Spain's Cahtolic monarchy banned all Jews from the country in 1492 and began a systemic persecution of Jewish people,
Muslim Sultan Bayezid sent the Ottoman navy to Spain to rescue them.
Bayezid II went down in history as the man who suppressed Columbus,
who approached him with a request for funding for his expedition, and Leonardo da Vinci, who offered him the project of construction of a bridge across the Golden horn.