Ahmed III
1673 – 1736 · 63 years · Istanbul · Middle East
Reign: 1703 – 1730 (Ottoman Empire)
Under him the army trapped Peter I on the Prut (1711), and after the Peace of Passarowitz (1718) came the 'Tulip Era' of palaces, gardens and İbrahim Müteferrika's first Ottoman press. He was deposed by the Patrona Halil revolt in 1730.
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