1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/‛Abdul Hamid II.

‛ABDUL HAMID II. (1842–1918), ex-Sultan of Turkey (see 1.35), died Feb. 10 1918. On his deposition in April 1909 he was sent to Salonika as a state prisoner, but when that town capitulated to the Greeks during the Balkan War (1912) he was brought back to Constantinople. In 1915 it was judged prudent to exile him from Turkey in Europe and he was removed to Smyrna.