Ruler · 1761 – 1808

Selim III

Lived 1761 – 1808. Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Empire), 1789 – 1807; also in the line of Ottoman Greece.

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Lived: 1761 – 1808; 47 years
In office: 18 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire · the 31st of 39 dated reigns · 1299 – 1922

27 before

Osman III1754 – 1757

Mustafa III1757 – 1774

Abdul Hamid I1774 – 1789

Selim III1789 – 1807

Mustafa IV1807 – 1808

Mahmud II1808 – 1839

Abdülmecid I1839 – 1861

5 after

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

Reigned 1789 – 1807 · 18 years · came to it aged 28

Came to it: the nephew or niece of the ruler before, on record
Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide; stab wound

Regarded as an enlightened ruler, he was eventually deposed and imprisoned by the Janissaries, who placed his cousin Mustafa on the throne as Mustafa IV (r. 1807–1808).

Also in the line of Ottoman Greece (23rd of 25, read from the line of Ottoman Empire).

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