The Hamidian period, was named after Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1876 to 1909, and the last sultan to exert effective control over the fracturing state. The Hamidian period was contained within the larger period known as the Late Ottoman period. The period effectively began after the First Constitutional Era with the suspension of the first constitution in 1878, and ended in 1908 after revolutionaries belonging to the Internal Committee of Union and Progress, an organization of the Young Turks movement, forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to restore the Constitution, recall the parliament, and schedule an election, beginning the Second Constitutional Era.