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
The Eyalet of Egypt (, ) operated as an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867. It originated as a result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and the a ...
from 1549 to 1553.
Semiz Ali Pasha was born in
Prača in
Bosnia (thus his secondary epithet), and replaced
Rüstem Pasha
Rüstem Pasha (; ota, رستم پاشا; 1505 – 10 July 1561) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. Rüstem Pasha is also known as Damat Rüstem Pasha (the epithet '' damat'' meaning 'son ...
as a Grand Vizier.
After palace schooling, he discharged high-level functions along the
Ottoman Empire
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.
His epithet "Semiz" means "fat" in
Turkish.
In 1561 he negotiated with the ambassador of the
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...
,
Ogier de Busbecq, on the terms of a peace treaty which was ratified in
Vienna
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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, governor, governor-general, or, more generally, '' wāli''. Furthermore, the Ottoman s ...
References
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16th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire
16th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt
Bosnian Muslims from the Ottoman Empire
Devshirme
Grand Viziers of Suleiman the Magnificent
Ottoman governors of Egypt
1565 deaths