Talk:Order of the Crescent

Latest comment: 16 years ago by Robert Prummel in topic doubts

doubts edit

There are a lot of contradicting sources on the internet.

  • Some state that Nelson was the only recipient.
  • Are there sources for these other knights?
  • The article states "All the existing Ottoman orders could not be awarded to non-Muslims, and so Selim specially created the Order of the Crescent as a one-off for Nelson". Were there Ottoman/Turkish orders in 1799? I can't find any... The earliest was this one! Before that there were only chelengks.

My sources are

Faithfully yours,

Robert Prummel (talk) 03:46, 3 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

P.S. Have you seen my Turkish orders project on [3]?