List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire - pedia

sultan kingSultan is a Muslim soveren, often hereditary, while a King is a male monarch of a kingdom, not specific to any relion.Maḥmūd of Ghazna (rened ad 998–1030) was the first Muslim ruler to be called sultan by his contemporaries, and under the Seljuqs of Anatolia and Iran it became a regular title.