Devlet is the
Turkish
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state
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", a borrowing from
Arabic
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''dawla'' (دولة) via
Persian
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''dowlat'' (دولت). It has also been used as a given name. It may refer to:
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Devlet Bahçeli
Devlet Bahçeli (born 1 January 1948) is a Turkish people, Turkish politician, economist, former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, deputy prime minister, and current chairman of the Far-right politics, far-right, Ultranationalism, ultranationa ...
(born 1948), Turkish politician and chairman of the far-right Nationalist Movement Party
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Devlet Ana (died 1267), grandmother of Ottoman Sultan
Osman I
Osman I or Osman Ghazi (; or ''Osman Gazi''; died 1323/4) was the eponymous founder of the Ottoman Empire (first known as a bey, beylik or emirate). While initially a small Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman principality during Osman's lifetime, h ...
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Devlet Hatun
Devlet Hatun (, "''reign''"; died in 1422) was a concubine of Sultan Bayezid I, and the mother of Mehmed I of the Ottoman Empire.
Biography
Devlet Hatun was a concubinage in Islam, slave concubine of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I and the mother of ...
(1370-1411), consort of Ottoman Sultan
Bayezid I
Bayezid I (; ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (; ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of ''Sultan-i Rûm'', ''Rûm'' being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 139 ...
and the mother of Sultan
Mehmed I
Mehmed I (; – 26 May 1421), also known as Mehmed Çelebi (, "the noble-born") or ''Kirişçi'' (, "lord's son"), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1413 to 1421. Son of Sultan Bayezid I and his concubine Devlet Hatun, he fought with hi ...
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Devletşah Hatun
Devletşah Sultan Hatun (, "''reign of the Şah''" or "''sovereign of the reign''", - 23 January 1414), was the daughter of Süleyman of Germiyan, Süleyman Şah Bey, the ruler of the Germiyanids. She was a consort of Sultan Bayezid I of the Ott ...
(1365-1414), consort of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I
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Devlet Giray (disambiguation) Devlet Giray may refer to:
*Khans of the Crimean Khanate:
** Devlet I Giray (1512–1577), reigned from 1551 to 1577
** Devlet II Giray (1648–1718), reigned in 1699–1702 and 1709–13
** Devlet III Giray (1647–1717), reigned from 1716 to 17 ...
, four Crimean khans
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