Mehmed III
1566 CE–1603 CE · Constantinople
Mehmed III was an Ottoman ruler who took the throne in 1595 during the Long War with the Habsburg Empire. He personally led the army to victory at the Battle of Keresztes in Hungary in 1596. His accession was accompanied by the killing of his brothers, an application of the Ottoman practice of royal fratricide. He died in 1603.
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- Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh)· 1547 CE–1618 CE
- Naresuan the Great· 1555 CE–1605 CE
- Tokugawa Ieyasu· 1543 CE–1616 CE
- Boris Godunov· 1552 CE–1605 CE
- Feodor I· 1557 CE–1598 CE
- Wanli Emperor· 1563 CE–1620 CE
- Akbar the Great· 1542 CE–1605 CE
- Jahangir· 1569 CE–1627 CE
- Murad III· 1546 CE–1595 CE
- Shah Abbas I the Great· 1571 CE–1629 CE
- Maharana Pratap· 1540 CE–1597 CE
- Elizabeth I· 1533 CE–1603 CE
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi· 1537 CE–1598 CE
- Ahmed I· 1590 CE–1617 CE
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