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Mehmed IV

1642 - 1693

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Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع, romanized: Meḥmed-i rābi; Turkish: IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), also known as Mehmed the Hunter (Turkish: Avcı Mehmed), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to become the second-longest-reigning sultan in Ottoman history after Suleiman the Magnificent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmed IV has received more than 2,157,200 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Mehmed IV is the 164th most popular politician (down from 130th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 24th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Politician.

Mehmed IV is most famous for being the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He was also the last Sultan to rule from Istanbul.

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  • 69

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mehmed IV ranks 164 out of 19,576. Before him are Mustafa I, Orhan, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire, and Cardinal Richelieu. After him are Francis I of France, Vespasian, Claudius, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lech Wałęsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1642, Mehmed IV ranks 1. After him are Suleiman II, Gülnuş Sultan, Johann Christoph Bach, Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shitao, André Charles Boulle, Ihara Saikaku, Andrea Pozzo, Seki Takakazu, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, and Abdul-Qādir Bedil. Among people deceased in 1693, Mehmed IV ranks 1. After him are Madame de La Fayette, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, Willem Kalf, Ihara Saikaku, Nicolaes Maes, Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Elisabeth Hevelius, and John de Britto.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mehmed IV ranks 30 out of 1,347. Before him are Abdul Hamid II (1842), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Luke the Evangelist (31), Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), and Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615). After him are Anaxagoras (-500), Osman II (1604), Hesiod (-800), John Chrysostom (349), Bayezid I (1354), and Mehmed I (1386).

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Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Mehmed IV ranks 17. Before him are Murad II (1404), Abdul Hamid II (1842), Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954), Mustafa I (1591), Orhan (1288), and Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire (1615). After him are Osman II (1604), Bayezid I (1354), Mehmed I (1386), Heraclius (575), Mehmed VI (1861), and Şehzade Mustafa (1515).

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