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Davut Ağa
Davud Agha was the chief imperial architect of the Ottoman Empire from 1588, after the death of his predecessor Mimar Sinan, Sinan, until his death in 1598 or 1599. His works include various monuments from the Classical Ottoman architecture, classical period of Ottoman architecture. Career Davud Agha was probably recruited through the ''devshirme'' system circa 1562 and from there followed a typical path into the Ottoman bureaucracy, studying architecture under the master architect Sinan. He probably participated as a Military engineering, military engineer in the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590), Ottoman campaign against the Safavids in 1583. He was a protegé of the Chief Black Eunuch, Mehmed Agha or Mehmet bin Abdurrahman. Under the latter's supervision, he may have been responsible for a late expansion of the Atik Valide Mosque in Üsküdar (previously designed by Sinan) between 1584 and 1586. The earliest work clearly attributed to him was in the Topkapı Palace in 1585, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nışançı Mehmed Pasha Mosque
The Nışançı Mehmed Pasha Mosque () is a late 16th-century Ottoman mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque is part of an architectural complex (''külliye'') that also includes the tomb of its founder, Nışançı Mehmed Pasha, and formerly included two madrasas and a Sufi lodge (''tekke''). Historical background The mosque was sponsored by Nışançı Mehmed Pasha, an Ottoman official who joined the imperial chancery, rose to post of chief secretary (''reisülküttab'') and then chancellor (''nışançı'') in 1567. He served as governor of Aleppo from around 1574 to 1576, then rose to the rank of vizier in 1580, under Sultan Murad III. He spent the rest of his career after this moving back and forth between this position and the position of chancellor. According to an inscription at its entrance, the mosque itself was built from 1584 to 1589. The two Madrasa, madrasas of the complex were completed in 1592–3 (1001 Hijri year, AH). The tomb of Nışançı Mehmed Pasha was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
