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
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 ...
and served as tutor (''
lala
Lala may refer to:
Geography
* Lala language (disambiguation) Places
* Lala (Naples Metro), an underground metro station in Naples, Italy
* Lala, Assam, a town in Assam, India
* Lala, Ilam, a village in Ilam Province, Iran
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'') 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
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