Murad III, Ottoman sultan (born 1546)

Murad III

Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to 1595

Murad III was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavids. The long-independent Morocco was for a time made a vassal of the empire but regained independence in 1582. His reign…