page_title: Mustafa II
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Mustafa II / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Battle of Zenta 11 September 1697
context_page_description: Mustafa II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703.
context_section_description: He was born at Edirne Palace on 6 February 1664. He was the son of Sultan Mehmed IV (1648–87) and Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmenia, who was of Greek Cretan descent. Mustafa II abdicated in favor of his brother Ahmed III (1703–30) in 1703.
  Born in Edirne, Mustafa's childhood passed here.  While he was in Mora Yenişehiri with his father in 1669, he took the first lesson from Mehmed Efendi at the bed-i besinele ceremony.  The writing teacher was the famous calligrapher Hafiz Osman. In 1675, He and his brother Ahmed were circumcised and his sisters Hatice Sultan and Fatma Sultan were married.  The celebration lasted 20 days.
caption: Battle of Zenta
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