Editing Selim II (section)

{{Short description|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1574}}
{{for|the Crimean khan|Selim II Giray}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Selim II
| title        = [[Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques]]
| titletext    = 
| more         = 
| image        = Portrait Of Sultan Selim II.jpg
| alt          = 
| caption      = Selim's portrait {{circa}} 1570
| succession   = [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Sultan of the Ottoman Empire]]<br/>([[Padishah]])
| predecessor  = [[Suleiman the Magnificent|Suleiman I]]
| successor    = [[Murad III]]
| reign        = 7 September 1566 – {{nowrap|15 December 1574}}
| coronation   = 29 September 1566
| succession1  = [[Ottoman Caliphate|Ottoman caliph]] (''[[Amir al-Mu'minin]]'')
| predecessor1 = Suleiman I
| successor1   = Murad III
| cor-type     = Sword girding
| birth_date   = {{birth-date|28 May 1524}}
| birth_place  = [[Eski Saray|Old Palace]], [[Constantinople]], [[Ottoman Empire]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1574|12|15|1524|5|28|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Topkapı Palace]], Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
| burial_place = [[Hagia Sophia]], Istanbul
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Nurbanu Sultan]]|1571}}
| issue        = [[Şah Sultan (daughter of Selim II)|Şah Sultan]]<br/>[[Gevherhan Sultan (daughter of Selim II)|Gevherhan Sultan]]<br/>[[Ismihan Sultan]]<br/>Murad III<br/>[[Fatma Sultan (daughter of Selim II)|Fatma Sultan]]
| issue-link   = #Sons
| issue-pipe   = Among others
| full name    = Selim Şah bin Süleyman Şah Han<ref>Garo Kürkman, (1996), ''Ottoman Silver Marks'', p.41</ref>
| house        = [[Ottoman dynasty|Ottoman]]
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = Suleiman I
| mother       = [[Roxelana|Hürrem Sultan]]
| signature_type = [[Tughra]]
| religion     = [[Sunni Islam]]
| signature    = Tughra_of_Selim_II.svg
}}
[[File:II. Selim Han.jpg|alt=Sultan|thumb|''Sultan Selim II'']]
[[File:Hünername II, 104a.jpg|thumb|Selim's circumcision, 1530]]
'''Selim II''' ({{langx|ota|سليم ثانى|Selīm-i <u>s</u>ānī}}; {{langx|tr|II. Selim}}; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as '''Selim the Blond''' ({{langx|tr|Sarı Selim|link=no}}) or '''Selim the Drunkard'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Somel |first1=Selçuk Akşin |title=Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire |url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00some |url-access=limited |date=2003 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=0810843323 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00some/page/n183 263]}}</ref> ({{lang|tr|Sarhoş Selim}}), was the [[sultan of the Ottoman Empire]] from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] and his wife [[Hurrem Sultan]]. Selim had been an unlikely candidate for the throne until his brother [[Şehzade Mehmed|Mehmed]] died of smallpox, his half-brother [[Şehzade Mustafa|Mustafa]] was strangled to death by the order of his father and his brother [[Şehzade Bayezid|Bayezid]] was killed on the order of his father after a rebellion against him and Selim.

During his reign, his grand vizier [[Sokollu Mehmed Pasha]] exerted significant control over state governance. The [[Siege of Famagusta|conquest of Cyprus]] and [[Conquest of Tunis (1574)|Tunis]] were notable achievements during his reign but setbacks occurred in the [[Battle of Lepanto]] and the failed capture of Astrakhan as part of the [[Russo-Turkish War (1568–1570)|war with Russia]].