List of rebellions in the Ottoman Empire
Rebellions in the Ottoman Empire
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During the 623-year existence of the Ottoman Empire, there were rebellions. Some of these rebellions were in fact interregnum (such as Cem’s rebellion). Some were national uprisings (such as Greek War of Independence). In the list below only those rebellions confined to Turkey, the heartland of Ottoman Empire are shown
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Note: Most of the rebellions are here named after their leader.
Name of rebellion | Place | Year |
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Sheikh Bedrettin | Karaburun, Aegean Region | 1416 |
Şahkulu | Antalya, Mediterranean Region | 1511 |
Celali | Anatolia | 1519 |
Baba Zünnun Rebellion | Bozok | 1526 |
Kalender Çelebi rebellion | Eastern Anatolia | 1527 |
Beylerbeyi | Istanbul | 1589 |
Celali | Anatolia | 1598–1602 |
Celali | Anatolia | 1603–1610 |
Abaza | Eastern Anatolia - Central Anatolia | 1622–1628 |
Atmeydanı | Istanbul | 1648 |
Çınar Incident | Istanbul | 1656 |
Abaza Hasan Revolt | Anatolia | 1658–1659 |
Edirne Event | Istanbul-Edirne | 1703 |
Patrona Halil | Istanbul | 1730 |
Kabakçı Mustafa | Istanbul | 1807–1808 |
Atçalı Kel Mehmet | Aydın, Aegean Region | 1829–1830 |
Bitlis uprising | Bitlis | 1907 |
31 March | Istanbul | 1909 |
Savior Officers | Istanbul | 1912 |
Babıali raid | Istanbul | 1913 |
Bitlis uprising | Bitlis | 1914 |
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Rebellions in the Ottoman Empire
- Sheikh Bedreddin rebellion (1416–20)
- Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin (1404–18)
- Skanderbeg's rebellion (1443–68)
- Buçuktepe rebellion (1446)
- Şahkulu Rebellion (1511)
- Nur Ali Halife rebellion (1512)
- Nasir al-Din rebellion (1518)
- Celali rebellions (1519)
- Expeditions against the Druze (1523–1524)
- Baba Zünnun Rebellion (1526)
- Kalender Çelebi rebellion (1527)
- Mariovo and Prilep Rebellion (1564–65)
- Expedition against the Druze (1565)
- Revolts of 1565–1572
- Expeditions against the Druze (1574–1576)
- Theodoros Boua Grivas revolt (1585)
- Expedition against the Druze (1585)
- Cairo Rebellion (1586)
- Beylerbeyi Event (1589)
- Celali rebellions (1590–1610)
- Uprising in Banat (1594)
- Himara Revolt (1596)
- Serb Uprising (1596–97)
- First Tarnovo Uprising (1598)
- Thessaly Rebellion (1600)
- Mamluk Rebellion (1609)
- Epirus revolt (1611)
- Druze rebellion (1623)
- Abaza rebellions (1624, 1627)
- Druze rebellion (1642)
- Atmeydanı Incident (1648)
- Çınar Incident (1656)
- Abaza Hasan Revolt (1658–1659)
- Druze power struggle (1658–1667)
- Second Tarnovo Uprising (1686)
- Chiprovtsi uprising (1688)
- Karposh's rebellion (1689)
- Edirne event (1703)
- Naousa uprising (1705)
- The Great Insurrection (1707–11)
- Karamanli revolt (1711)
- Uprising in Vučitrn (1717)
- Patrona Halil Rebellion (1730)
- Serb Uprising (1737–39)
- Orlov Revolt (1770)
- Koča's frontier rebellion (1788)
- Tripolitanian civil war (1793–1795)
- Dahije in Belgrade (1801–04)
- First Serbian Uprising (1804–13)
- Kabakçı Mustafa rebellion (1807)
- Jančić's Rebellion (1809)
- Hadži-Prodan's Rebellion (1814)
- Second Serbian Uprising (1815-17)
- Wallachian Uprising (1821)
- Niš Rebellion (1821)
- Greek War of Independence (1821–29)
- Atçalı Kel Mehmet revolt (1830)
- Bosnian uprising (1831–33)
- Bilmez Rebellion (1832–33)
- Laz rebellion (1832–34)
- Shkodër Rebellion (1833)
- Priest Jovica's Rebellion (1834)
- Second Mašići Rebellion (1834)
- Syrian Peasant Revolt (1834-35)
- Tripolitanian revolt (1835–1858)
- Posavina Rebellion (1836)
- Livno Rebellion (1836)
- Pirot Rebellion (1836)
- Berkovitsa Rebellion (1836)
- Belogradchik Rebellion (1836)
- Vlora Rebellion (1836)
- Druze revolt (1838)
- Diber Rebellion (1838–39)
- Cretan Revolt (1841)
- Niš Rebellion (1841)
- Uprising of Dervish Cara (1843–44)
- Albanian Revolt (1845)
- Albanian Revolt (1847)
- Herzegovina Uprising (1852–62)
- Epirus Revolt (1854)
- Greek Macedonian rebellion of 1854 (1854)
- Doljani Revolt (1858)
- Mount Lebanon civil conflict (1860)
- Cretan Revolt (1866–69)
- Greek Macedonian rebellion of 1867 (1866–67)
- Herzegovina Uprising (1875–77)
- Bulgarian April uprising (1876)
- Razlovtsi insurrection (1876)
- Kumanovo Uprising (1878)
- 1878 Macedonian rebellion (1878)
- Cretan Revolt (1878)
- Kresna–Razlog Uprising (1878–79)
- Epirus Revolt (1878)
- Thessaly Revolt (1878)
- Ulcinj rebellion (1878)
- Brsjak Revolt (1880–81)
- Cretan Revolt (1896–97)
- 1896–1897 Macedonian rebellion (1896–97)
- Cretan Revolt (1897–98)
- Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903)
- Shoubak revolt (1905)
- Theriso revolt (1905)
- Mesopotamia uprising (1906)
- Bitlis uprising (1907)
- Young Turk Revolution (1908)
- Hamawand rebellion (1908–10)
- Al-Bejat Revolution (1909)
- 31 March Incident (1909)
- Hauran Druze Rebellion (1909)
- Zaraniq rebellion (1909–1910) (1910)
- Karak revolt (1910)
- Albanian revolt of 1910 (1910)
- Malissori uprising (1911)
- Albanian revolt of 1912 (1912)
- Savior Officers (1912)
- Raid on the Sublime Porte (1913)
- Euphrates rebellion (1913)
- Bitlis uprising (1914)
- Kurdish rebellions during World War I (1914–18)
- Uprising in Karbala (1915)
- Arab Revolt (1916–18)
- Uprising in Hilla (1916)
- Koçgiri rebellion (1921)