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Sultan Bayezid II Prohibits Turks from Printing

1484
Sultan II. Bayezit
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Sultan Bayezid II.

By decree of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire in 1484 Turks were prohibited from operating a printing press.

Timeline Themes

Book History from 1452 to 1797
Printing by Handpress or by Hand
Social / Political
Religious Texts / Religion