Person1673 – 1736
Ahmed III
Also called: Ahmet III
Ottoman sultan (r. 1703–1730) whose later reign was the “Tulip Era”; he was deposed by a revolt
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A period under Ahmed III and his grand vizier Ibrahim Pasha when the Ottoman Empire, at peace, took in European culture and its court culture flowered — named after a craze for tulips.
Themes this person appears in
- Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence