(8) granting priority to england's merchants within ottoman territory these foreign relations outlived the sultan himself being passed from the hands of murad iii to mehmed iii as the final sultan of the th century mehmed iii took on the growing alliance between his european vassals and austrian enemy initially facing a loss though quickly bouncing back to defeat the habsburg and transylvanian forces at the battle of koreshtech in the end of the s brought only slightly improved luck as a peace agreement
was reached between the ottoman empire and one of the vassal leaders mihai the brave who had found prior success in fighting off the turkish troops sultan mehmed iii continued to hold the ottoman throne into the th century and would reign for another three years to come the ottoman empire in the hands of sultan mehmed iii began the th century having made peace with notable challengers such as michael the
brave who now ruled over moldavia and transylvania uniting them under one flag however conflict still persisted elsewhere barely into the sixteen hundreds the ottomans captured the fortress of nagi kanitsa having to defend their new hold on the following year at the siege of nagia konitsa against the habsburg and allied forces while continuing to participate in the -year war against the habsburg monarchy the
turks were also constrained to engage with repeated revolts that surfaced at the start of the century adding a third front to the ottoman's current situation in the fall of war broke out once again with the savapha dynasty of persia making the death of sultan mehmed iii that december even heavier a loss for the empire at only years old ahmed the first was next to take the title of sultan following his father's death likely due to his age sultan ahmed made an unprecedented decision in favor of sparing the life of
his brother mustafa opposing the expected act of fratricide demonstrated by his predecessors as a way of avoiding future dissension over the throne the young sultan chose to keep mustafa alive an act which prevented a potential end to the dynasty given that ahmed had not yet fathered any children to secede him nonetheless getting right to work ahmed focused his attention on the raging ottoman safafid war
sending an army from constantinople in june of to confront their antagonistic foe having arrived later than they should have the turks failed to prevent the safavids from capturing yerevan and advancing forward some arguably poor decisions on the ottoman side ensued all but throwing away a year of precious time and opportunity by the war continued to wage on and prompted the turks under the
command of mehmed pasha to form a temporary allegiance with steven box kai prince of transylvania who had requested assistance from the ottoman empire still as a consequence of ongoing struggles from multiple angles including more revolts in anatolia sultan ahmed was forced to concede to the treaty of sithfatorak in with austria recognizing the habsburg emperor as his equal and taking an axe to ottoman
expansion in europe pressed even further to extend favorable commercial privileges to the netherlands france and venice the young sultan caused a significant blow to the empire's forced once again to come to an agreement with a bitter rival near the end of the ottomans and safavid signed the treaty of nasa pasha surrendering all territory gained in the war back to the persians resetting the map to that of after
the peace treaty of amasia the same year also marked a renewal of non-violence with france venice and england as well as a novel trade treaty that was signed with the dutch republic while scrambling to create a wave of harmony ahmed's attempts to calm the atmosphere within his sovereign borders
through new regulations religious donations and architecture were mostly overshadowed after a rain plagued with turmoil sultan ahmed fell ill and passed away in november of leaving the unsteady empire under the watchful eye of mustafa the first in an unusual occurrence the death of the prior sultan left the throne open to multiple candidates all of which resided at
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