⌂ Atlas ☰ Read as a page The thread: How did an empire whose soldiers made and unmade sultans come, by 1660, to be governed by one grand vizier?
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Key

The sultan's government Rebels against the sultan Safavid Persia Poland–Lithuania The Crimean khans Venice bond — succession, office, alliance conflict — war, revolt, prosecution

Sources & method

  1. Mehmed III, Ahmed I, Mustafa I, Osman II, Murad IV, Ibrahim and Mehmed IV — Wikipedia (reigns, successions, depositions) — source
  2. Şehzade Mahmud — Wikipedia (the seer's letter and the prince's execution, 7 June 1603) — source
  3. Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor — Wikipedia (Kanizsa taken 20 Oct 1600; the failed Habsburg siege of 1601) — source
  4. Ottoman–Safavid war (1603–1612) and Treaty of Nasuh Pasha (20 Nov 1612) — Wikipedia; Nasuh Paşa Antlaşması — Turkish Wikipedia — source
  5. Ali Janbulad and Kuyucu Murad Pasha — Wikipedia (Oruç Ovası, Oct 1607; Fakhr al-Din's pardon) — source
  6. Kösem Sultan — Wikipedia (regencies, the 1632 break with Murad, the 1648 deposition, her killing in 1651) — source
  7. Ottoman–Safavid War (1623–1639) and Siege of Baghdad (1638) — Wikipedia — source
  8. Mehmed III Giray — Wikipedia; III. Mehmed Giray — Turkish Wikipedia (Recep Pasha's 1624 expedition to Kefe) — source
  9. Fakhr al-Din II — Wikipedia (the 1633 campaign, the cave, the execution in 1635) — source
  10. Al-Mu'ayyad Muhammad and Yemen Eyalet — Wikipedia (Sanaa 1629, the Ottoman withdrawal of 1635) — source
  11. Cretan War (1645–1669) and Battle of the Dardanelles (1656) — Wikipedia — source
  12. Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, George II Rákóczi and Abaza Hasan Pasha — Wikipedia (the 1656 terms, Transylvania, Aleppo 1659, Várad 1660) — source
Method. The chain of people follows a sourced account of the polity, 1600–1660; every claim the narration makes was checked against the sources above. Borders: historical-basemaps (A. Ourednik, GPL-3.0), the c.1600 snapshot, simplified — schematic, the right states in roughly the right places. Territorial changes: modern provinces (Natural Earth) or later snapshots standing in for historical ones. Portraits: each credited with its author, licence and source on the readable page. Relief: Esri World Physical Map. Narration: Azure neural voice.
A narrated polity atlas · 1600–1660

The Ottoman Empire, 1600–1660

How did an empire whose soldiers made and unmade sultans come, by 1660, to be governed by one grand vizier?
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