Ruler · 1610 – 1674

Mehmed IV Giray

Lived 1610 – 1674; poet. Khan of Crimea of Crimean Khanate, 1641 – 1644 and 1 more term.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1610 – 1674; 64 years
In office: 15 years; 2 reigns
Lines: 1; Crimean Khanate
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

Khan of Crimea

Crimean Khanate · the 30th and 32nd of 70 dated reigns · 1441 – 1783

26 before

Canibek Giray1627 – 1635

İnayet Giray1635 – 1637

Bahadır I Giray1637 – 1641

Mehmed IV Giray1641 – 1644

İslâm III Giray1644 – 1654

Mehmed IV Giray1654 – 1666

Adil Giray1666 – 1671

Selim I Giray1671 – 1677

Murad Giray1677 – 1683

35 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1641 – 1644 · 3 years · came to it aged 31 · term 1 of 2

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1644; they died in 1674

Reigned 1654 – 1666 · 12 years · came to it aged 44 · term 2 of 2

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

the article also: deposed

In 1666 Mehmed was deposed because he had sent his son, rather than himself, to Hungary to fight the Hapsburgs and because he had attacked the 'Nogais of Bessarabia' (apparently the Budjak Horde).

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