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Osman II, commonly known as Genç Osman, was the Ottoman Empire's 25th Sultan. He ascended to the kingdom as a 14-year-old lively and intellectual child, and during his brief reign. He sa ...
October 19, 2021
Mahmud I was also known as the Hunchback. From 1730 to 1754, he was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. After the Patrona Halil revolt, he ascended to the throne and maintained cordial relations with the ...
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Sultan Mehmed IV's son, Sultan Ahmed III, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was born in the Dobruja town of Hacolu Pazarck. On his brother Mustafa II's abdication in 1703, he ascende ...
October 19, 2021
From 1695 to 1703, Mustafa II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. His resolve to reclaim lands lost following the failed effort to seize Vienna in 1683 prompted him to continue the fight against ...
October 19, 2021
From 1691 to 1695, Ahmed II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Ahmed encouraged tribal settlement in Anatolia and Syria to provide land for nomadic Turkmen tribes and end certain abuses in the O ...
October 19, 2021
From 1687 until 1691, Suleiman II (15 April 1642 to 22 June 1691) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleiman with his Grand Vizier Fazıl Mustafa Pasha successfully turned the tide of the Holy Leagu ...
October 19, 2021
From 1648 until 1687, Mehmed IV, commonly known as Mehmed the Hunter, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. After his father was deposed in a coup, he ascended to the kingdom at six. Contemporaries ...
October 19, 2021
From 1640 to 1648, Ibrahim (5 November 1615 – 18 August 1648) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was the son of Ahmed I and Valide Kösem Sultan, an ethnic Greek originally called A ...
October 19, 2021
Murad IV (1612 – 1640) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640 and was noted to restore the state's power and brutality. Murad IV was the son of Sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603&nda ...
October 19, 2021
Osman II, also known as Genç Osman, was an Ottoman sultan who ascended to the throne as a 14-year-old active and intellectual kid who saw the need for reform inside the empire throughout his ...
October 12, 2021
Mustafa I, also known as Mustafa the Saint (Veli Mustafa) during his second reign and Mustafa the Mad (Deli Mustafa) by later historians, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1617 to 1618 and ...
October 12, 2021
From 1603 to 1617, Ahmed I served as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Ahmed's reign is notable for being the first time the Ottoman custom of royal fratricide was broken; from then on, Ottoman rul ...
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