Ahmed III (Ottoman Turkish: ???? ????, A?med-i salis) (30 December 1673 – 1 July 1736) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV (r.
1648–87).
His mother was Gülnus Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek.
He was born at Hacioglu Pazarcik, in Dobruja.
He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II (1695–1703).
Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha and the Sultan's daughter, Fatma Sultan (wife of the former) directed the government from 1718 to 1730, a period referred to as the Tulip Era.