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SULEIMAN II

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SULEIMAN II . (1641-1691), See also:sultan of See also:Turkey, was a son of Sultan See also:Ibrahim, and succeeded his See also:brother Mahommed IV. in 1687. See also:Forty-six years of enforced retirement had qualified him for the See also:cloister rather than for the See also:throne, and his first feeling when notified of his See also:accession was one of terror for his brother's vengeance. Nor were the circumstances following on his See also:elevation to the throne of a nature to reassure him, as one of the most violent of the revolts of the See also:janissaries ended in the See also:murder of the See also:grand See also:vizier and the brutal See also:mutilation of his See also:family, with See also:general See also:massacre and pillage throughout See also:Constantinople. The See also:war with See also:Austria was for Turkey a See also:succession of disasters. At this See also:time, fortunately for the See also:Ottoman See also:Empire, a third See also:great See also:kuprili (Mustafa) arose and re-established See also:order in the sorely-tried See also:state (see KUPRILI). In the reforms which followed, whereby the situation of the See also:Christian subjects of the See also:Porte was greatly improved, Suleiman is at least to be given the See also:credit of having allowed Mustafa Kuprili a See also:free See also:hand. With an improved See also:administration Turkey's fortunes in the war began to revive, and the reconquest of See also:Belgrade See also:late in 1690 was the last important event of the reign, which ended in 1691 by Suleiman's See also:death.

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