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Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع, romanized: Meḥmed-i rābi; Turkish: IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter (Turkish: Avcı Mehmed), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup.
Ottoman sultan Mehmet IV ("the Hunter") was inattentive to state affairs, especially in the war. The soldiers as well as the other subjects of the empire accused him as well as grand vizier Sarı Süleyman Pasha of the failures in the war. In 1687, the army returned from the front and staged a coup in which both the sultan and the grand vizier ...
Mehmed II eventually heard of these intrigues and was further provoked to action by David's demand that Mehmed remit the tribute imposed on his brother. Mehmed the Conqueror's response came in the summer of 1461. He led a sizable army from Bursa by land and the Ottoman navy by sea, first to Sinope, joining forces with Ismail's brother Ahmed ...
Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Turkish form of the Arabic male name Muhammad (Arabic: محمد) (Muhammed and Muhammet are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
General surviving works of Mehmed II's portraits are quite limited, [13] let alone documentation on those by Sinan Bey and his student Şiblizade Ahmed of Bursa. Due to its remarkable fame, Portrait of Mehmed II Smelling a Rose (ca. 1480-81) is the only work that is officially known to be a work either by the master or the pupil. Others are all ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
Mehmed II uses the Basilica cannon to penetrate the Theodosian Walls. In a flashback to Mehmed's childhood, the narration goes back to when Murad II appoints his teenage son as the governor of the Amasya Province. Afterwards, Mehmed II starts with first reign of the Ottoman Empire at the age of 13—becoming the youngest king in Ottoman history.
Mehmed installed his new son-in-law in the frontier province of Sivas and promised to supply him with arms and men, with which he would assert his claim to his patrimony at the proper moment. [7] Ughurlu Muhammad was killed in the rebellion he attempted against his father in 1477. [5] [7] Of this marriage, Ahmad Beg was born.