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|Sultan_Name=Sultan Ahmed I
|image_portrait=I Ahmet.jpg
|Military=Growth of the Ottoman Empire
|title=[[Ottoman Sultan]]|title2=[[Ottoman Caliphate|Caliph]]
|before=[[Mehmed III]]
|after=[[Mustafa I]]
|years=1603–1617}}

'''Ahmed I''' ([[Ottoman Turkish language|Ottoman Turkish]]: احمد اول ''Aḥmed-i evvel'', [[Turkish language|Turkish]]:''I.Ahmet'') ([[April 18]], [[1590]] – [[November 22]], [[1617]]) was the [[Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from [[1603]] until his death.

Ahmed I succeeded his father [[Mehmed III]] (1595–1603) in [[1603]] at age 13 and became the first Ottoman sultan who reached the throne before attaining his majority. He broke with the traditional fratricide and send his brother Mustafa to live at the old palace at Bayezit along with their grandmother Safiye Sultan. He was known for his skills in fencing, horseback riding, and fluency in numerous languages.

In the earlier part of his reign Ahmed I showed decision and vigour, which were belied by his subsequent conduct. The wars which attended his accession both in [[Hungary]] and in [[Iran|Persia]] terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the [[Treaty of Sitvatorok|Treaty of Zsitvatorok]], signed in [[1606]], whereby the annual tribute paid by [[Austria]] was abolished. [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] and [[Azerbaijan]] were ceded to Persia.

Ahmed was a poet who wrote a number of political and lyrical works under the name Bahti. He was devoutly religious, spending much of his wealth to support the works of scholars and pious men. He also attempted to enforce conformance to Islamic laws and traditions, restoring the old regulations that prohibited alcohol and he attempted to enforce attendance at the Friday Mosque prayers and paying alms to the poor in the proper way. Ahmed I died of [[typhus]] in [[1617]].

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the [[Sultan Ahmed Mosque]] (also known as the [[Sultan Ahmed Mosque|Blue Mosque]]), one of the masterpieces of [[Islamic architecture]]. The area in [[Istanbul]] around the Mosque is today called Sultanahmet. He is buried in a mausoleum right outside the walls of the famous mosque.

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