Mustafa III
26th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1757-1774) · Turkey · Lived 1717 to 1774 · aged 56
Mustafa III is read about 800 times a day, in 66 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?Ottoman sultan who spent years locked away after his father's overthrow, then took the throne in 1757 with ambitions to modernize the empire - only to drag it into a catastrophic war with Russia that revealed how far behind it had already fallen.
Also in Deutsch
Photos 8
Mustafa3
1758 მუსტაფა III-ის ბერათი ოსმანისადმი
1758 მუსტაფა III-ის ბერათი სულეიმან ესადისადმი
1764 მუსტაფა III-ის ბერათი მირლავა მეჰმედ საიდისადმი_p593_-_MUSTAPHA_III._(1757-1774).jpg?width=1200)
SPRY(1895) p593 - MUSTAPHA III. (1757-1774)
Arbre généalogique des trente premiers sultans ottomans - Musée du Louvre Arts de l'Islam MAO 2315
III. Mustafa'nın zırhı
Mustafa III by John YoungFamily
Parents
Mustafa IIIPartners
Brothers and sisters
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.
Correct this familyAbout this person
Mustafa was the son of Sultan Ahmed III, confined for decades after his father's deposition in 1730. When he finally became sultan in 1757, he set about promoting justice, economic reform, and infrastructure modernization. An admirer of Frederick the Great, he aligned the empire diplomatically with Prussia. But in 1768 he pushed for war with Russia - a decision that ended in disaster. Despite his reform efforts, the conflict exposed deep Ottoman military weakness and concluded with major territorial losses. He died in 1774, succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.