Abdullah bin SaudW
Abdullah bin Saud

Abdullah bin Saud Al Saud ruled the First Saudi State from 1814 to 1818. He was the last ruler of the First Saudi State and was executed in Constantinople under the Ottoman Empire. Although the Ottomans maintained several garrisons in the Najd thereafter, they were unable to prevent the rise of the Emirate of Nejd led by Turki bin Abdallah bin Muhammad bin Saud.

Benderli Ali PashaW
Benderli Ali Pasha

Benderli Ali Pasha was an Ottoman statesman. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

Bacho KiroW
Bacho Kiro

Bacho Kiro was the nickname of Kiro Petrov Zanev, a Bulgarian teacher, man of letters and revolutionary who took an active part in the April Uprising.

Cyril VI of ConstantinopleW
Cyril VI of Constantinople

Cyril VI, lay name Konstantinos Serpetzoglou was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople between the years 1813 and 1818.

Athanasios DiakosW
Athanasios Diakos

Athanasios Nikolaos Massavetas also known as Athanasios Diakos was a Greek military commander during the Greek War of Independence, considered a venerable national hero in Greece.

Tsanko DyustabanovW
Tsanko Dyustabanov

Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.

Halet EfendiW
Halet Efendi

Mehmet Sait Halet Efendi (1761–1822) was an Ottoman diplomat and politician, ambassador to Paris from 1803 to 1806 and later the favourite and Inner Minister of the sultan Mahmud II. He was ambassador to the court of Napoleon I until 1806, and was succeeded in this role by Muhib Efendi, who was ambassador from 1806 to 1811.

Konstantinos GianniasW
Konstantinos Giannias

Konstantinos Giannias was a Greek klepht who operated in the Peloponnese. Giannias was born in Prostovitsa, a village now known as Drosia in Achaia. He was the brother of Giannis Giannias.

Gregory V of ConstantinopleW
Gregory V of Constantinople

Gregory V, was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1797 to 1798, from 1806 to 1808 and from 1818 to 1821. He was responsible for much restoration work to the Patriarchal Cathedral of St George, which had been badly damaged by fire in 1738.

Abdulvehab IlhamijaW
Abdulvehab Ilhamija

Abdulvehab Ilhamija Žepčevi was an 18th-century Bosnian dervish and prose writer.

Georgi IzmirlievW
Georgi Izmirliev

Georgi Dimitrov Izmirliev, nicknamed Makedoncheto, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and public figure. A participant in the anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876, he was an assistant to Stefan Stambolov and a military commander of the Tarnovo revolutionary district.

Stefan KaradzhaW
Stefan Karadzha

Stefan Karadzha, was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.

Kyprianos of CyprusW
Kyprianos of Cyprus

Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus was the head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church in the early 19th century at the time that the Greek War of Independence broke out.

Vasil LevskiW
Vasil Levski

Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and is a national hero of Bulgaria today. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule. Levski founded the Internal Revolutionary Organisation, and sought to foment a nationwide uprising through a network of secret regional committees.

Midhat PashaW
Midhat Pasha

Ahmed Şefik Midhat Pasha was an Ottoman democrat and one of the leading statesmen during the late Tanzimat period. He is most famous for leading the Ottoman constitutional movement of 1876 and introducing the First Constitutional Era, but was also a leading figure of reform in the educational and provincial administrations. He was part of a governing elite which recognized the crisis the Empire was in and considered reform to be a dire need. Midhat Pasha is described as a person with a liberal attitude and is often considered as one of the founders of the Ottoman Parliament.

Dimitar ObshtiW
Dimitar Obshti

Dimitar Obshti was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, who fought for the liberation of Bulgaria, Serbia and Crete from the Ottoman Empire, as well as for the Risorgimento of Italy.

Selim IIIW
Selim III

Selim III was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807. Although regarded as an enlightened ruler, the Janissaries eventually deposed and imprisoned him, and placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV. Selim was subsequently killed by a group of assassins.

Thymios VlachavasW
Thymios Vlachavas

Thymios Vlahavas was a Greek klepht.