Editing Ahmed III (section)

===Character of Ahmed's rule===
[[File:Ahmet III 1720.jpg|thumb|Sultan Ahmed III at a reception, painted in 1720|left|298x298px]]
While shooting competitions were held in [[Okmeydanı]], Istanbul with the idea of increasing the morale of the soldiers and the people, a new warship was launched in [[Imperial Arsenal|Tersane-i Amire]].

He tried three grand viziers at short intervals. Instead of Hasan Pasha, he appointed Kalaylikoz Ahmed Pasha on 24 September 1704, and Baltacı Mehmed Pasha on 25 December 1704.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=297}}

In 1707, a conspiracy led by Eyüplü Ali Ağa was unearthed to bring the sultan off the throne. What resulted were that necks were ordered to be cut in front of the Bab-I-Hümayun.

Ahmed III left the finances of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in a flourishing condition, which had remarkably been obtained without excessive taxation or extortionate procedures. He was a cultivated [[Patronage|patron]] of literature and art, and it was in his time that the first [[printing press]] was authorized to use either the Arabic or Turkish languages; it was set up in Istanbul, and operated by [[Ibrahim Muteferrika]] (while the printing press had been introduced to Constantinople in 1480, all published works before 1729 were in Greek, Armenian, or Hebrew).

It was in his reign that an important change in the government of the [[Danubian Principalities]] was introduced: previously, the [[Ottoman Porte|Porte]] had appointed [[Hospodar]]s, usually native [[Moldavia]]n and [[Wallachia]]n [[boyar]]s, to administer those provinces; after the [[Pruth River Campaign|Russian campaign]] of 1711, during which [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]] found an ally in [[Moldavia]] [[List of rulers of Moldavia|Prince]] [[Dimitrie Cantemir]], the Porte began overtly deputizing [[Phanariotes|Phanariote]] [[Greeks]] in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after [[List of rulers of Wallachia|Prince]] [[Stefan Cantacuzino]] established links with Prince [[Prince Eugene of Savoy|Eugene of Savoy]]. The Phanariotes constituted a kind of ''[[Dhimmi]]'' nobility, which supplied the Porte with functionaries in many important departments of the state.