Kara Mustafa, was born in 1634 /1635, an Albanian who was educated as a child in the family of Mehmed Kohlru, and later became the third Grand Vizier of Kohlru's time.
He was also nicknamed "Black Mustafa" because of his dark skin, but he was self-important, ambitious, autocratic, blindly arrogant, and was known to show off. More importantly, Black Mustafa was a megalomaniac who dreamed of becoming a great conqueror known throughout the world. Fervently anti-Christian, he once repeated Bayezid's words that one day St. Peter's Basilica in Rome would be turned into a stable. He also wanted to take Vienna and then invade the Rhine against Louis XIV. In his own mind, although he nominally ruled as a sultan, he was actually a monarch who controlled a large part of Europe. But he proved to be an inferior general, making one mistake after another on the battlefield and squandering the imperial gains of the Coplulus' military talent and increased power......
On July 13, 1683, Mustafa led the main Ottoman army to Vienna, and Charles, Duke of Lorraine, the Christian commander of the battle, sent two-thirds of the Austrian army to Linz on the upper Danube, leaving only a third of the city's troops, and the total defense of Vienna was only about 12,000 men. The Ottoman expeditionary force on the other side totaled 250,000 men, and there were nearly 100,000 troops directly involved in the siege of Vienna! Even if the Ottoman commander was not such a great figure as Suleiman the Great, even a slightly experienced commander would have been able to fight at least a draw, but Mustafa was defeated in the battle of Vienna in 1683......In 1683, the Ottoman army under Mustafa suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Vienna. He was executed in Belgrade on 25 December 1683 by the order of Sultan Muhammad IV. But Mustafa's influence was far from over, as the fiasco at the Battle of Vienna wiped out the gains made by the previous two Great Vizylkopru!
