Osmancık
Osmancık is a district of Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, located 59 km north of the city of Çorum.
Geography
Located on an important crossing of the River Kızılırmak on the ancient Silk Road to the orient, Osmancık ...
lı (or
Amasya
Amasya () is a city in northern Turkey and is the capital of Amasya Province, in the Black Sea Region. It was called Amaseia or Amasia in antiquity."Amasya" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th e ...
lı) Koca Mehmed Nizamüddin
Pasha
Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, gener ...
( tr, Osmancıklı
Danişmendoğlu Koca Mehmet Nizamüddin Paşa; died 1439) was an
Ottoman statesman
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who served as
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 ...
of the Ottoman Empire from 1429 to 1438.
[İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 9. (Turkish)]
He settled in
Osmancık
Osmancık is a district of Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, located 59 km north of the city of Çorum.
Geography
Located on an important crossing of the River Kızılırmak on the ancient Silk Road to the orient, Osmancık ...
after his service as grand vizier and died there in 1439. He was the son of
Imamzade Halil Pasha
Imamzade Halil Pasha (also known as Osmancıklı Imamzade Halil Pasha) was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1406 to 1413.İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 197 ...
, who also served as grand vizier.
See also
*
List of Ottoman Grand Viziers
References
15th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire
Turks from the Ottoman Empire
1439 deaths
People from Osmancık
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