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Koca Ragıp Mehmed Pasha
Koca (a Turkish word meaning "great" or "large") may refer to: People Epithet * Koca Barbul Ban (died 1565), Wallachian rebel * Koca Ragıp Pasha (1698–1763), Ottoman statesman * Koča Andjelković (1755–1789), Serbian rebel * Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha (1769–1855), Ottoman admiral * Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha (1800–1858), Ottoman statesman * Koca Yusuf (1857–1898), Turkish professional wrestler * Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ (1488/1490-1588), Ottoman architect and civil engineer Surname * Atilla Koca (born 1980), Turkish footballer * Fahrettin Koca (born 1965), Turkish physician and politician * Gülcan Koca (born 1990), Turkish-Australian female footballer Places * Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque (; also named ''Sünbül Efendi Camii'') is a former Eastern Orthodox church converted into a mosque by the Ottomans, located in Istanbul, Turkey. The church, as the adjoining monastery, was dedicated to Saint Andrew of ... {{disambiguation, given na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkish Language
Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languages of Cyprus. Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, other parts of Europe, the South Caucasus, and some parts of Central Asia, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraq, and Syrian Turkmen, Syria. Turkish is the List of languages by total number of speakers, 18th-most spoken language in the world. To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish—the variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire—spread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Atatürk's reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script-based Ottoman Turkish alphabet was repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banul Mărăcine
Banul Mărăcine or Mărăcină (Romanian language, Romanian for "The ''Great Banship of Craiova, Ban'' Bramble"), common rendition of Barbu III Craiovescu, Barbu Mărăcine or Barbu Basarab (,Rezachevici, p. 54 ; died August 1?, 1565), was a historical figure in Wallachia, who claimed the title of List of Wallachian rulers, Prince. He was one of several Craiovești pretenders to the throne, a category which also included his father, Preda Craiovescu. Mărăcine himself entered historical record in 1532, when, as an opponent of Prince Vlad VI Înecatul, Vlad VI, he had his estate confiscated. He returned to favor later that year, with the crowning of Vlad Vintilă de la Slatina. Like Preda before him, Mărăcine served as ''Ban'' of Oltenia, becoming the last of his family to hold that title. According to various accounts, he turned against his new lord, from organizing armed resistance in Oltenia to involving himself in Vlad Vintilă's assassination. He was able to maintain his posi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koca Ragıp Pasha
Koca Mehmet Ragıp Pasha (1698–1763) was an Ottoman statesman who served as a civil servant before 1744 as the provincial governor of Egypt from 1744 to 1748 and Grand Vizier from 1757 to 1763. He was also known as a poet. His epithet ''Koca'' means "great" or "giant" in Turkish. Early years His father was Şevki Mustafa, a bureaucrat in the Ottoman Empire. After completing his education, Mehmet Ragıp worked in various parts of the empire as a civil servant. He served as the chief treasurer in Baghdad (then a part of the Ottoman Empire). He was a member of Ottoman representatives in the Treaty of Belgrade in 1739. He was promoted to the post of ''reis ül-küttab'' (equivalent to a modern foreign minister) in 1740. He was the governor of Ottoman Egypt from 1744 to 1748, when he was forced to step down by local troops. As Grand Vizier He was appointed as Grand Vizier on 12 January 1757 by the sultan Osman III. When Osman III died ten months later, Mehmet Ragıp Pasha co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha
Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha (also known as Koca Hüsrev Pasha; sometimes known in Western sources as just Husrev Pasha or Khosrew Pasha;Inalcık, Halil. Trans. by Gibb, H.A.R. ''The Encyclopaedia of Islam'', New Ed., Vol. V, Fascicules 79–80, pp. 35 f.Khosrew Pasha. E.J. Brill (Leiden), 1979. Retrieved 13 September 2011. 1756–1855) was an Ottoman admiral, reformer and statesman, who was Kapudan Pasha ("Grand Admiral") of the Ottoman Navy. He reached the position of Grand Vizier rather late in his career, between 2 July 1839 and 8 June 1840 during the reign of Abdulmejid I. However, during the 1820s, he occupied key administrative roles in the fight against regional warlords, the reformation of the army, and the reformation of Turkish attire. He was one of the main statesmen who predicted a war with the Russian Empire, which would eventually be the case with the outbreak of the Crimean War. In Egypt He was probably born around 1756, and it is reported that he was of Abaza desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha
Koca (a Turkish word meaning "great" or "large") may refer to: People Epithet * Koca Barbul Ban (died 1565), Wallachian rebel * Koca Ragıp Pasha (1698–1763), Ottoman statesman * Koča Andjelković (1755–1789), Serbian rebel * Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha (1769–1855), Ottoman admiral * Koca Mustafa Reşid Pasha (1800–1858), Ottoman statesman * Koca Yusuf (1857–1898), Turkish professional wrestler * Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ (1488/1490-1588), Ottoman architect and civil engineer Surname * Atilla Koca Atilla Koca (born 16 July 1980) is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or ke ... (born 1980), Turkish footballer * Fahrettin Koca (born 1965), Turkish physician and politician * Gülcan Koca (born 1990), Turkish-Australian female footballer Places * Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque {{disambiguation, g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimar Sinan
Mimar Sinan (; , ; – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha (title), Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman Empire, Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III. He was responsible for the construction of more than 300 major structures, including the Selimiye Mosque, Edirne, Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, the Kanuni Sultan Suleiman bridge (Istanbul), Kanuni Sultan Suleiman Bridge in Büyükçekmece, and the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, as well as other more modest projects such as madrasa's, külliyes, and bridges. His apprentices would later design the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul and the Stari Most bridge in Mostar. The son of a stonemason, he received a technical education and became a military engineer. He rose rapidly through the ranks to become first an officer and finally a Janissary commander, with the honorific title of Sinan.Goodwin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
