(12) indulgence and overly lavish lifestyle in a time of economic struggle a janissary mutiny broke out again led by patrona sultan ahmed iii was subsequently deposed and replaced on the throne by his nephew mahmud the first one of the many sultans to do so mahmud was forced to first calm the boiling tensions in his empire after his uncle's overthrow after roughly a year sultan mahmud was able to end the rebellion with the execution of halil and a large portion of his supporters during his reign mahmud
became stuck in an on and off war with persia which brought about no real conclusion whilst also being faced with more discord in europe beginning in the new russia turkish war began after russia decided to sign the treaty of ganja with iran creating an alliance against the offensive ottomans the russians now turn toward crimea which they continuously sieged burning palaces and fortifications as they pushed
deeper into the peninsula they finally reached azov where they captured the ottomans fortress there although russian goals were aggressive all sides of the conflict were essentially subdued by a plague outbreak throughout to still austria attempted to join the war against the turks during but they faced repeated defeats at the hands of the ottomans and eventually lost belgrade after an incursion in the late summer of all three empires made negotiation efforts part way through the war but no progress was made diplomatically russia continued to drive deeper into ottoman territory through despite the fact that the austrians seem to have had enough the same year the treaty of belgrade was signed ending the
austro-turkish war and giving the ottomans the kingdom of serbia part of bennet as well as handing over altenia over to the ottoman vassal of velahia russia was eventually forced to sign the treaty of nish roughly a month later which ended their war with the turks while allowing them to keep control of azov six years after peace was made with his european opponents sultan mohammed died of natural causes and was succeeded by osman iii osman son of mustafa ii spent years in captivity after his father's
deposition and seemed to have developed some behavioral issues as a consequence potentially due to his unusual mind osmond was not responsible for many significant changes or events in the empire's history one of the peculiar modifications made during his reign was the banning of all music and musicians from his palace nonetheless a more important action taken by sultan osmond iii was the declaration of the furman in that preserved the division of responsibilities for various holy land sites
between christians jews and muslims that same year on october th osman passed away leaving the ottoman throne open to mustafa iii mustafa iii was determined to create more solidity within the empire he focused initially on issues with coinage aqueducts and other internal affairs as well as spending a decent amount of time traveling to ensure that his laws were being enforced throughout his territory externally mustafa was determined to maintain peace with europe despite pressure from frederick the
great of prussia to become more involved in european affairs the ottomans put great effort into remaining peaceful until war with russia became inevitable once again russia's overbearing attitude toward poland and crimea became too much for the ottomans and another russia turkish conflict erupted in . the war was an embarrassing defeat for the ottoman empire which was forced to give up territory reparations and allow the russians to be protectors of orthodox christianity in the ottoman vassal states in .
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