Ruler · 1779 – 1808

Mustafa IV

Lived 1779 – 1808; ruler. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), 1807 – 1808; also in the line of Ottoman Greece.

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Lived: 1779 – 1808; 29 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: deposed; the ruler's own article

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire · the 32nd of 39 dated reigns · 1299 – 1922

28 before

Mustafa III1757 – 1774

Abdul Hamid I1774 – 1789

Selim III1789 – 1807

Mustafa IV1807 – 1808

Mahmud II1808 – 1839

Abdülmecid I1839 – 1861

Abdulaziz1861 – 1876

4 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadthis entry

Reigned 1807 – 1808 · 1 year · came to it aged 28

Left it: deposedread from the ruler's own article

Just as the rebels demanded that Mustafa "yield his place to a worthier", Mahmud revealed himself, and Mustafa was deposed.

Also in the line of Ottoman Greece (24th of 25, read from the line of Ottoman Empire).

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