Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed's Administration

Name: Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed's Administration
Start: 1661
End: 1670

Type Event Region Ottoman Empire Time 1661–1670

From November 1661, Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed served as grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire, continuing his father Köprülü Mehmed Pasha's reforms and direct…

Timeline

1661–1663Istanbul · Ottoman EmpireFazıl Ahmed took the powers of grand vizier from Sultan Mehmed IV, continuing the Köprülü family's policies of administrative rectification and balancing the military elite against the ulema, providing a relatively stable home front for the multi-front wars of the 1660s.
1663–1670Ottoman Empire · Ottoman EmpireUnder his direction, the Ottomans launched the 1663–1664 war against the Habsburgs, continued the siege of Crete, and intervened in Polish affairs in the later 1660s, with imperial military resources concentrated in the Balkans and the Aegean.

Sources

İnalcık, Halil. The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300–1600 — Halil İnalcık (2001)
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6pr%C3%BCl%C3%BC_Faz%C4%B1l_Ahmed_Pasha