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4 unusual facts about grand vizier


Atik Ali Pasha Mosque

It was built by Grand Vizier Bosnalı Hadım Atik Ali Paşa in 1496, during the reign of Sultan Beyazıt II.

Patriarch Gregory IV of Constantinople

The latter were successful at persuading the Grand Vizier to depose Cyril Lucaris on 12 April 1623 and to appoint in his place Gregory IV, the head of the pro-Western faction.

Treaty of Sèvres

On October 18, the government of Damat Ferid Pasha was replaced by a provisional ministry under Ahmed Tevfik Pasha as Grand Vizier, who announced an intention to convoke the Senate with the purpose of ratification of the Treaty, provided that national unity were achieved.

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Ahmed III

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans but this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

Asterix and the Great Divide

He is the stereotype of a leader's right-hand advisor who appears loyal but plots against his master — in ways similar to the popular view of Louis XIII of France and Cardinal Richelieu; King Théoden and Gríma Wormtongue; or Goscinny's Caliph Haroun El Poussah and Grand Vizier Iznogoud; or the later Asterix characters Vizier Hoodunnit and Rajah Watzit.

Beylerbeyi Event

The Grand Vizier Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha was fortunate, for he was only dismissed from his post.

Çandarlı

The town's landmark is the 15th century Ottoman castle built by the Grand Vizier Çandarlı (2nd) Halil Pasha (to distinguish from his homonymous grandfather).

Committee of Union and Progress

The Grand Vizier Mehmed Kamil Pasha and his minister of war, Nazım Pasha, became targets of the CUP, which overthrew them in a military coup d'état on 23 January 1913.

Damat Ferid Pasha

Damat Ferid Pasha (1853 – 6 October 1923) (full name Damat Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha Efendi) was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier during two periods under the reign of the last Ottoman Sultan Mehmed VI Vahdeddin, the first time between 4 March 1919 and 2 October 1919 and the second time between 5 April 1920 and 21 October 1920.

Malta exiles

The names included the former grand vizier Said Halim Pasha (who was at first sent to Moudros), his brother Abbas Halim Pasha, the writer-ideologue Ziya Gökalp and others.

Mehmed Fuad Pasha

The beginning of Fuat’s term as Foreign Minister and Ali’s as Grand Vizier marked an important shift in Ottoman foreign policy and sharp division between Resid and his former protégés.

Nova Kasaba

The first mention of this town can be traced back to the year of 1641, when a Kara Musa Pasha, Turkish Grand Vizier, asked for a permission to build a mosque and Han (Caravanserai) in the Bosnian Sanjak Municipality, Birač district in the vicinity of the Gojković village.

Papermaking

Production began in Baghdad, where under the supervision of the Grand Vizier Ja'far ibn Yahya, they invented a method to make a thicker sheet of paper.

Petar Keglević

One of the sons of Petar Keglević moved to Valladolid (see: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor#Conflicts with the Ottoman Empire) and Mehmed-paša Sokolović became Commander of the Imperial Squires and later Grand Vizier.

Piva Monastery

Its founder, the Serbian Metropolitan of Herzegovina, later the Serbian Patriarch, Savatije Sokolović, was a kinsman of the Grand Vizier, Mehmed Pasha Sokolović (also known as Sokollu Mehmed Pasha), who was kidnapped from his Serbian home as a boy and rose to become one of the most renowned statesmen to three sultans -- Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim I and Murad III.

Rachel Johnson

On her father's side, Johnson is great-granddaughter of Ali Kemal Bey, a liberal Turkish journalist and the interior minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, who was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence in 1922.

Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha

Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, also called Silahdar Ali Pasha, (1667, Iznik – August 5, 1716, Belgrade) was an Ottoman Turkish general and Grand Vizier.

Taïeb Djellouli

A member of an aristocratic Tunisian family, he served as the last Grand Vizier of the Beylik of Tunis from 1915 until 1922.


see also

1528 in poetry

Birbal, real name: Maheshdas Bhat (died 1586), Indian poet, wit and Grand Vizier of the Mughal court of Emperor Akbar

1586 in poetry

Birbal, real name: Maheshdas Bhat (born 1528), Indian poet, wit and Grand Vizier of the Mughal court of Emperor Akbar

724

Tonyukuk, Turkic grand vizier and commander-in-chief (approximate date)

Ermeni Suleyman Pasha

After being demoted from the position of Grand Vizier, he was appointed as the governor of Bosnia then as kaymakam of Istanbul, Özü, then Istanbul and Erzurum again.

Greeks in Egypt

Although there is a long list of Greeks who were quite influential during the Ottoman Caliphate, Ibrahim Pasha perhaps is the most well known, who served as the Grand Vizier to Sultan Suleyman from 1520-1566.

Ibn Hazm

After the death of the grand vizier al-Muzaffar in 1008, the Umayyad Caliphate of Iberia became embroiled in a civil war that lasted until 1031 resulting in its collapse of the central authority of Córdoba and the emergence of many smaller incompetent states called Taifas.

Kâmil Pasha

The ex-Grand Vizier (who probably was in danger of life) was invited by his British friend Lord Kitchener to stay with him in Cairo.

Koca Mehmed Pasha

Koca Dervish Mehmed Pasha (died 1655), Ottoman grand vizier (1652–1653) and Kapudan Pasha (1652)

Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha (1769–1855), Ottoman grand vizier (1839–1841) and Kapudan Pasha (1823–1827)

Lucien Saint

As resident general, Lucien Saint invited the sultan of Morocco, Moulay Mohammed (later Mohammed V), his grand vizier and his interpreter to Marignac on 26 July 1929 as part of their stay in Bagnères-de-Luchon, and their signatures in Arabic script are in the town's register.

Müezzinzade

Müezzinzade Hafız Ahmed Pasha (1564–1632), Ottoman grand vizier and provincial governor

Musa Pasha

Kara Musa Pasha (died 1649), Ottoman Kapudan Pasha (grand admiral) and grand vizier

Salih Pasha

Salih Hulusi Pasha (1864–1939), Ottoman grand vizier (1920), one of the last

Siyavuş Pasha

Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha (died 1602), Ottoman grand vizier (1582–84, 1586–89, 1592–93)