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Janus Bey, in Turkish Yunus Bey (born in Modon at the end of the 15th century; died 1541/42) was a Modern edition of the Italian text
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* Krstić, Tijana "Of Translation and Empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as Renaissance go-betweens" in Christine Woodhead, ''The Ottoman World'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011) pp. 130-142, especially 132-13
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1541 deaths People from Pylos-Nestor Greeks from the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors to the Republic of Venice Dragomans 16th-century Greek people 16th-century people from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century diplomats
Janus Bey, in Turkish Yunus Bey (born in Modon at the end of the 15th century; died 1541/42) was a Greek
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who became an interpreter (''dragoman
A dragoman or Interpretation was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish-, Arabic-, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts. A ...
'') and ambassador for the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
.
In 1532 he visited Venice
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and had meetings with the Venetian government. He was considered as the ambassador for the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
, was well received, and was the beneficiary of large presents from the Venetians. In 1532, he apparently worked with French ambassador Antonio Rincon
Antonio Rincon (died 3/4 July 1541), also Antoine de Rincon, was a Spanish-born diplomat in the service of France. An influential envoy from the King of France to Sultan Suleiman I of the Ottoman Empire, he made various missions to Constantinople ...
to obtain a safe-conduct
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for the Ottoman embassy to France (1533)
An Ottoman embassy to France was sent in 1533 by Hayreddin Barbarossa, the Ottoman Governor of Algiers, vassal of the Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent.
A safe-conduct is thought to have been obtained in 1532 for the embassy by the Ottoma ...
. In 1537 he was co-author with Alvise Gritti
Alvise Gritti (born 29 September 1480, died 1534), whose first name may also be spelled Aloisio, Lodovico, Ludovico, Luigi or Louis (Hungarian ''Lajos''), was a Venetian politician. He was influential in the Hungarian Kingdom under the reign of K ...
of an Italian booklet, published in Venice, on the government of the Ottoman Empire. The title was ''Opera noua la quale dechiara tutto il gouerno del gran Turcho''./ref> He founded a mosque in
Constantinople
la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه
, alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
, called the "Dragoman's Mosque" (''Durughman Mesjidi''). He died in 1541/42.
See also
*Franco-Ottoman alliance
The Franco-Ottoman Alliance, also known as the Franco-Turkish Alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the King of France Francis I and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman I. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was o ...
Notes
References
* Garnier, Edith ''L'Alliance Impie'' Editions du Felin, 2008, Paris {{ISBN, 978-2-86645-678-8}Interview
* Krstić, Tijana "Of Translation and Empire: sixteenth-century Ottoman imperial interpreters as Renaissance go-betweens" in Christine Woodhead, ''The Ottoman World'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011) pp. 130-142, especially 132-13
Preview at Google Books
1541 deaths People from Pylos-Nestor Greeks from the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors to the Republic of Venice Dragomans 16th-century Greek people 16th-century people from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century diplomats