Mehmed III.

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Mehmed III.

Mehmed III. ( 26 May 1566 - 22 December 1603 ) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 to 1603.

Accession to the throne

Mehmed III, the son of Murad III. , was very carefully prepared for his office. When he came to power he had his nineteen younger brothers murdered, most of them still children. This measure was intended to avoid future disputes over the throne among the usually numerous male heirs to the throne of a sultan (see also harem ), but was no longer practiced by his successors. Instead of murdering them, future heirs to the throne usually put their younger brothers under strict house arrest for life . If the potential successors of Ahmed I were still housed in a part of the Seraglio called a “prince's cage” , they were later banished to the so-called Prince Islands (Demones Islands, Turkish Adalar ), a group of islands in the Sea of ​​Marmara in front of what is now Istanbul's Bostanci , Maltepe district , Kartal and Pendik .

Regency

Mehmed III. then gave himself to idleness as sultan and left the business of government to his mother Safiye . An important event of its time was the “Long Turkish War” (3rd Austrian Turkish War) from 1593 to 1606, in which Mehmed was the first sultan since Suleyman I to personally take command. In 1596 the Ottoman army conquered the northern Hungarian Eger (in Heves county ) and did not defeat the Habsburgs in the battle of Mezőkeresztes near Mezőkeresztes (today in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county , Hungary ), although Mehmed had to be persuaded during this battle just give up and run away in the truest sense of the word.

See also

literature

  • Nicolae Iorga : History of the Ottoman Empire. Depicted according to the sources. 5 volumes, Perthes, Gotha 1908–1913; Reprint: Frankfurt am Main 1990.
  • Ferenc Majoros, Bernd Rill: The Ottoman Empire 1300-1922. The story of a great power . Marix, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-25-8 .
  • Josef Matuz: Mehmed III. . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 3. Munich 1979, p. 140 f.
  • Josef Matuz: The Ottoman Empire. Baseline of its history . 4th edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-534-20020-9 .
  • Gabriel Effendi Noradounghian : Recueil d'actes internationaux de l'Empire Ottoman 1300-1789. Volume I. Paris / Neufchâtel 1897. Reprint: Kraus, Nendeln 1978, ISBN 3-262-00527-4 .

Web links

Commons : Mehmed III  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Biographies . Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe in cooperation with ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. On: tuerkenbeute.de ; last accessed on March 24, 2017.
  • Illustration by Mathias van Somer from 1665: Sultan Mahumet III. and XV. Ottoman gender ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe: Mehmet III. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuerkenbeute.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: tuerkenbeute.de ; last accessed on March 24, 2017.
  2. Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe: Ahmet I. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tuerkenbeute.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On: tuerkenbeute.de ; last accessed on March 24, 2017.
  3. İbrahim Peçevî, Bekir Sıtkı Baykal: Peçevi tarihi . Volume II (= Kültür Bakanlığı yayınları , Volume 467). Kültür Bakanlığı, Ankara 1999, ISBN 975-17-1109-6 ; and the previous edition by İbrahim Peçevî, Murat Uraz: Pecevi Tarihi. Volume II. Türk Neṣriyat Yurdu, Istanbul 1968-69.
predecessor Office successor
Murad III Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire
1595–1603
Ahmed I.