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Serbs In Turkey
The Serbs in Turkey are Turkish citizens of Serbian descent or Serbia-born people who reside in Turkey. History During the age of the Ottoman Empire most of Serbia and the Balkans were under Turkish control, and many Serbs moved to Istanbul and Anatolia for reasons ranging from economic to forceful relocation. On 28 August 1521, the Belgrade Fortress was captured by Suleiman the Magnificent, using 250,000 Turkish soldiers and over 100 ships. Subsequently, most of the city was razed to the ground and its entire Orthodox Christian population was deported to Istanbul to an area that has since become known as the Belgrade forest. Many Janissaries were of Serbian descent and were taken as children from their homes and educated in Turkey. Some Serbs achieved political prominence and several Grand Viziers were born as Serbs. Notable people * Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1456 to 1466, and 1472 to 1474 * Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier from 1474 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istanbul
Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, cultural and historic hub. The city straddles the Bosporus strait, lying in both Europe and Asia, and has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of Turkey. Istanbul is the list of European cities by population within city limits, most populous European city, and the world's List of largest cities, 15th-largest city. The city was founded as Byzantium ( grc-gre, Βυζάντιον, ) in the 7th century BCE by Ancient Greece, Greek settlers from Megara. In 330 CE, the Roman emperor Constantine the Great made it his imperial capital, renaming it first as New Rome ( grc-gre, Νέα Ῥώμη, ; la, Nova Roma) and then as Constantinople () after himself. The city grew in size and influence, eventually becom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha ( ota, صوقوللى محمد پاشا, Ṣoḳollu Meḥmed Pașa, tr, Sokollu Mehmet Paşa; ; ; 1506 – 11 October 1579) was an Ottoman statesman most notable for being the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Ottoman Herzegovina into an Orthodox Christian Serbian family, Mehmed was abducted at an early age as part of the Ottoman devşirme system of forcibly recruiting Christian boys to be raised to serve as a janissary. He rose through the ranks of the Ottoman imperial system, eventually holding positions as commander of the imperial guard (1543–1546), High Admiral of the Fleet (1546–1551), Governor-General of Rumelia (1551–1555), Third Vizier (1555–1561), Second Vizier (1561–1565), and as Grand Vizier (1565–1579, for a total of 14 years, three months, 17 days) under three sultans: Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II, and Murad III.Imamović, Mustafa (1996). Historija Bošnjaka. Sarajevo: BZK Preporod. He was assassinated in 1579, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara Musa Pasha
Kara Musa Pasha ("Musa Pasha the Courageous" in Turkish; died 1649)Süreyya, Bey Mehmet, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit Ali. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı Ile Türkiye Ekonomik Ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın Ortak Yayınıdır, 1890. Print. was an Ottoman soldier and statesman of Bosnian origin who was named grand vizier by Sultan Ibrahim I 16 September 1647 after Nevesinli Salih Pasha's execution, holding the office for only five days until 21 September. He also held the office of Kapudan Pasha (''Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy'') in 1647. He was trained in Enderûn.Uluçam, Müjdat, "Musa Paşa (Kara)" (1999) ''Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi'', C.2 s.261, İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Yayıncılık A.Ş. ISBN 975-08-0071-01 His first meeting with sultan Murad IV was in 1630. Later on in his life, he became a member of Sublime Porte/Divan (the Ottoman government council) and was selected three times to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nevesinli Salih Pasha
Nevesinli Salih Pasha ( sh, Salih-paša Nevesinjac; , died 16 September 1647) was an Ottoman civil servant and grand vizier. Early years Salih Pasha was from Nevesinje, Sanjak of Herzegovina, Bosnia Eyalet, and was sent to Constantinople at a young age. During the reign of Sultan Murat IV (r. 1623–1640), he was a civil servant specialized in treasury. He served in some other posts as well, and finally during the reign of Sultan Ibrahim (r. 1640–1648) in 1644, he was appointed defterdar, the highest position in the treasury. In 1645, grand vizier Sultanzade Mehmet Pasha was dismissed from the post. The first choice of the sultan for the post was Yusuf Pasha. However, Yusuf Pasha did not accept, and Salih Pasha was appointed as grand vizier on 17 December 1645.Ayhan Buz: ''Osmanlı Sadrazamları'',Neden Kitap,İstanbul, 2009 pp.100-101 Grand Vizierate The most important issue in 1646 was the war in Crete, an important island in the Aegean Sea, which was a dependency of Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha
Derviş Mehmed Pasha ( tr , Derviş Mehmed Paşa; 1569 – 9 December 1606), an Ottoman Bosnian statesman, served briefly as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 21 June 1606 and 9 December 1606. Life Origin He was born an Orthodox Christian from Bosnia, being brought away by the Ottomans as part of the ''devşirme'', becoming a Janissary. He rose in the court ranks and became ''Kapıcıbaşı'' He was educated in the Bostancı quarry. He was also known as Civan Bey, as he was a "boss" at a relatively young age. He won the favour of the young Ahmed I. In 1605, he was appointed as the captain of the vizier, as well. Handan Valide Sultan, the mother of Sultan Ahmed, tried to persuade her son not to believe this person, but Handan Sultan died on 9 November 1605. Ahmed I, who was 15 years old, was more influenced by the Captain-Derya Derviş Mehmed Pasha. The Grand Vizier and the Austrian front Serdar-ı Ekrem Lala Mehmed Pasha returned to Istanbul while negoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha
Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha (died 21 June 1606) was an Ottoman statesman from Serbian origin. He may have been a cousin of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and served as tutor (''lala'') to a royal prince. He was the grand vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ... between 1604 and 1606.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) See also * List of Ottoman Grand Viziers References Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims People from the Ottoman Empire of Serbian descent 17th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire Devshirme Lalas (title) 16th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire People of the Long Turkish War 1606 deaths {{Ottoman-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semiz Ali Pasha
Semiz Ali Pasha ( ota, سيمز علي پاشا, sh, Semiz Ali-Paša ) was an Ottoman statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1561 to 1565. He was the beylerbey (governor) of Egypt Eyalet from 1549 to 1553. Semiz Ali Pasha was born in Prača in Bosnia (thus his secondary epithet), and replaced Rüstem Pasha as a Grand Vizier. After palace schooling, he discharged high-level functions along the Ottoman Empire. His epithet "Semiz" means "fat" in Turkish. In 1561 he negotiated with the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire, Ogier de Busbecq, on the terms of a peace treaty which was ratified in Vienna in the following year.Ogier de Busbecq (2005), ''Turkish Letters'', Eland, London, pp. 124 - 160 See also * List of Ottoman Grand Viziers * List of Ottoman governors of Egypt The Ottoman Empire's governors of Egypt from 1517 to 1805 were at various times known by different but synonymous titles, among them ''beylerbey'', viceroy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadım Ali Pasha
Hadım Ali Pasha (Turkish: ''Hadım Ali Paşa''; died July 1511), also known as Atik Ali Pasha (Turkish: ''Atik Ali Paşa''), was an Ottoman statesman and eunuch (''hadım'' means "eunuch" in Turkish) of Bosnian origin. He served as governor of Rumeli, and led the Ottoman army in the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, but was defeated at Adana in 1488. He was then named Grand Vizier from 1501 to 1503, and again from 1509 to 1511. During his latter tenure, he led the suppression of the Alevi-led Şahkulu Rebellion, but died in battle near Sivas along with the rebel leader Şahkulu himself. Life He was from Drozgometva village in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served as governor of Rumeli, and led the Ottoman army in the Ottoman–Mamluk War of 1485–1491, but was defeated at Adana in 1488. He was then appointed grand vizier in 1501–1503, and again in 1509–1511. During his latter tenure he led the suppression of the Alevi-led Şahkulu Rebellion, but fell in batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deli Husrev Pasha
Deli Hüsrev Paşa ( sh, Deli Husrev Paša, tr, Deli Hüsrev Paşa, ) (c. 1495 - 1544) was an Ottoman and Bosnian statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia. His epithet "deli" means "crazy" in Ottoman Turkish, which was ascribed to him because of his quick temper. Biography He was born in 1495 as one of the early members of the Serb Sokolović family (which would go on to spawn some of the greatest statesmen of the Empire). His exact birthplace is unknown. Some historians place it near the Glasinac Plateau near Sarajevo, while others put it more eastward, to the Podrinje region of Bosnia. His younger brother was Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha. He was appointed sanjak-bey of Konya in 1516. He participated in the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and personally fought in the siege of the city of Harput. He also attended the expedition to Egypt shortly after. In 1520, he took part in the suppression of the Qizilbash uprising. In 1521, he was appointed beylerbey of the Diyarbekir Eyalet, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gedik Ahmed Pasha
Gedik Ahmed Pasha (; died 18 November 1482) was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who served as Grand Vizier and Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II. Very little was known about Gedik Ahmed Pasha in primary sources until late in historiography. Serbia and Albania had both been proposed as geographical regions for his birthplace and Mükrimin Halil Yinanç had even claimed that he was descended from the Byzantine Greek Palaiologos dynasty based on unnamed Western sources Yinanç claimed to have access to. Later research in the Ottoman archives of Vranje (southeastern Serbia) by Aleksandar Stojanovski established that Gedik Ahmed Pasha was a member of the local Serbian feudal families of the area and was born in the village Punoševce. Leading the Ottoman Army, he defeated the last Anatolian beylik (principality) resisting Ottoman expansion in the region, the Karamanids. The Karamanids had been the strongest prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Pasha
Omer Pasha, also known as Omer Pasha Latas ( tr, Ömer Lütfi Paşa, sr, Омер-паша Латас, Omer-paša Latas; 24 September 1806 – 18 April 1871) was an Ottoman field marshal and governor. Born in Austrian territory to Serbian Orthodox Christian parents, he initially served as an Austrian soldier. When faced with charges of embezzlement, he fled to Ottoman Bosnia in 1823 and converted to Islam; he then joined the Ottoman army, where he quickly rose through the ranks. Latas crushed several rebellions throughout the Ottoman Empire, and served as a commander in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, where he defeated the Russians at Silistra (1854), regaining Bucharest and occupying the Danubian Principalities. He also won notable victories at Oltenița, Eupatoria (1855) and participated in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855). As a commander Omer Pasha was noted especially for his excellent strategic skills. Early life Omer Pasha was born Mihajlo Latas ( sr, Мих ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Berovich
George Berovich ( sr, Đorđe Berović, el, Γεώργιος Βέροβιτς, ''Georgios Verovits'', 1845–1897), known as Berovich Pasha ( tr, Beroviç Paşa) was a Christian Ottoman statesman who served as Governor-General (''wāli'') of Crete and Prince of Samos. Biography Berovich was born in Scutari, Sanjak of Scutari, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania). He was of Serb ethnic origin. He was the last of a line of Ottoman pashas of the Berovich family. In 19th-century Ottoman Empire, the government asked Christian families to send sons to be educated in Istanbul in order to provide Christian administrators for Christian-majority provinces. He was appointed to several administrative positions in Turkey. Before coming to Samos, he was a counselor in the ''vilayet'' administration of Crete. He came to Samos in the midst of an armed rebellion by the Greek population of the island. Turkish army was poised to send punitive expedition but his intervention provided the mutually accept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
