Mahmud I

Mahmud I (in Arabic ??????????) (August 2, 1696 – December 13, 1754) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1730 to 1754. He was the son of Mustafa II and the older brother of Osman III.

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Brought to the throne by the revolt of Halil Pasha, Mahmud swiftly asserted himself by winning over the Janissaries and having Halil Pasha murdered. The rest of Mahmud's reign was dominated by wars with Persia and Russia. The Persian wars saw Ottoman forces ranged against the military genius of Nadir Shah. The Turks managed to retain control of Baghdad, but Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia fell back within the Persian sphere of influence.

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The Russian war was fought primarily in the Crimea and the Danubian Principalities (Wallachia and Moldavia). In this war, the Russian commander Von Munnich routed Mahmud's Crimean Tatar vassals and then led his forces across the Dniestr, bringing much of Bessarabia under Russian control. The Austrians, however, did not fare as well, as Ottoman forces brought Belgrade and northern Serbia back under their control.

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Mahmud entrusted government to his viziers and spent much of his time composing poetry.

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August 2: August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining....

1696: The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the Gregorian calendar would have behaved like the Julian calendar since March 1500 had it have been in use that long. See 1903....

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