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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mehmed III, whose reign was marked by a protracted war with Austria and major uprisings in Anatolia. Mehmed's rule began with the fight against Austria, which had already been going on for two ...

Sultan Selim II is often known as Selim the Blond or Selim the Drunk. He ruled the Ottoman Empire. Suleiman the Magnificent had a son with his wife, Hurrem Sultan. Selim had been an unlikely conten ...

Suleiman I was acknowledged in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in his realm as Suleiman the Lawgiver. He was the eleventh and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He reigned from ...

Selim I was also known as Selim the Resolute or Selim the Grim. From 1512 until 1520, he was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Despite his short tenure, his reign is remembered for the Empire's mas ...