Talk:Count Alexander of Montenegro

Validity of Sources

I couldn't find sources on Jahja. But there are some claims which I find quite uncreditable. It is claimed that he was smuggled out, first to Greece, and then to present day Bulgaria. It is true that, Mehmet III killed many of his brothers when he was enthroned. But unless a prince was involved in a rebellion (or the father suspected of son's behavior), there are no cases of son-killing in the Ottoman Empire. Thus the fear of the mother seems rootless. But the most important fallacy is smuggling of the prince. In the said period, both Greece and Bulgaria were parts of the Ottoman Empire (not the vassal but the directly ruled parts). Furthermore the bulk of the army was in Bulgaria because of the Long war. So Jahja would be no more secure in Bulgaria than his former location and it was impossible for him to be unspotted in eight years. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 08:03, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry but your claime is false...you said: there are no cases of son-killing in the Ottoman Empire. Thus the fear of the mother seems rootless.

Bullshit...

Listen: Süleyman the Great (Süleyman Kanuni) ordered firstly killed his son Mustafa, and later his son Bayezid together with his own sons...

So what? Dilek2 (talk) 18:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

• "Sultan Jahja" -Llc 21 results
• + Ottoman "Sultan Jahja" -Llc 5 results, 3 of them are in French language -> 2 results (in English)
• "Sultan Yahya" -Llc 461 results
• + Ottoman "Sultan Yahya" -Llc 9 results

Takabeg (talk) 09:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

His mother the Komnenian princess

This story is improbable. Yahya was born in 1585: the last princesses of the Empire of Trebizond were Theodora Megale Komnene (who married Uzun Hassan in 1458), Eudokia Megale Komnene (who is said to have married Niccolò Crispo before the fall of Trebizond in 1461), Anna Megale Komnene (born 1447, & was given as a "prize" to one of Sultan Mehmet II's followers), & possibly one more woman born no later than 1460. Even if there was a fifth princess of this house, she had to been born before 1461 (when Trebizond was conquered & the dynasty effectively came to an end), & would have been 124 when she gave birth to Yahya! However, this could be a tradition (or a bit of propaganda that Yahya & his supporters circulated), this would be notable & worth including. But it needs to be soruced. (And if the reliable sources insist his mother was a princess of the Komnenan Imperial House, this discrepency needs to be noted.) -- llywrch (talk) 22:10, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Yahya's father

This article needs an experts attention. In the older versions of the page Yahya was Mehmet’s son. On 15 February 2016, after an ambigious editor changed his fathers name, Yahya became Mehmet’s brother which is in accord with the same article in other WPs. If so, the lede should be rewritten. In particular the sentence Yahya's mother was concerned that this could also eventually happen to him after the death of his father is meaningless. I'll call the editor. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 20:18, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Sourses

Hi, I'm from russian wiki and I'm preparing to write article aboun this adventurer in russian. I've added some sourses in article. --Удивленный1 (talk) 07:14, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Misinformation

It reads:Eventually, Yahya's two older brothers died, but in 1603, since Yahya had escaped the country to avoid fratricide, his younger brother Ahmed I (the fourth-born) became Ottoman sultan. That's not correct. Ahmet was not his younger brother . Ahmet was the son of Mehmet III, ie. Yahya's nephew. I'm going to corect it. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 15:31, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

HA-HA

Have You ever read sources? He was not son of Murad:

1) Ostapchuk, p. 92.:

This man, Yahya, believed that he was the son of Sultan Mehmed III and the legitimate heir to the Ottoman throne. 

2) Malcolm, p.121:

his father was Mehmet the eldest son of sultan Murad.

3) Catualdi,p.14:

Cresciuto negli anni, Maometto ebbe quivi cinque figliuoli maschi da donne differenti, cioè Selim, Mahmud, Jahja, Ahmed e Mustafà.

--Удивленный1 (talk) 11:21, 22 November 2018 (UTC)