İbrahim Peçevi or Peçuyli İbrahim Efendi or ''(in Bosnian)'' Ibrahim Alajbegović Pečevija (1572–1650) (

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: پچویلی ابراهیم افندى ) was an Ottoman Bosnian

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of the

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Life

He was born in

Pécs Pécs ( , ; ; Slovak language, Slovak: ''Päťkostolie''; also known by #Name, alternative names) is List of cities and towns of Hungary#Largest cities in Hungary, the fifth largest city in Hungary, on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the c ...

(Peçuy),

(today

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), hence his name, ''Peçevi'' ("from Pécs"). His mother was from the Sokolović Bosnian family. The name of his father is unknown. His paternal great-grandfather was a Turkish

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named Kara Davut Agha who was in the service of

Mehmed II Mehmed II (; , ; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (; ), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481. In Mehmed II's first reign, ...

.Peçevi İbrahim Efendi, ''Tarih-i Peçevi'', Page XIX, Preface Peçevi was a provincial official in many places and became a historian after his retirement in 1641. He spoke

and his native Bosnian very well. The year of his death is not known. According to Katip Çelebi, he died in the

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of 1061 (1650 AD). Some historians think he died before 1649.

Works

Peçevi

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is famous for his two-volume book ''Tarih-i Peçevi'' ("Pecevi's History") of the history of the Ottoman Empire, the main reference for the period 1520–1640. The information about earlier events Peçevi took from previous works and narrations of veterans, while his own times are described firsthand and from tales of witnesses. Peçevi, careful to references all quotations, was also one of the first Ottoman historians who used European written sources; for example, he makes references to Hungarian historians. Parts of Peçevi's chronicles has been translated into Turkish, Bosnian,

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, Hungarian, Georgian and Azerbaijani.

References

* Franz Babinger, "Historians of the Osmans (i.e., Ottomans) and their Works": ** "Geschichtsschreiber der Osmanen und ihre Werke" (Leipzig, 1927) ** "Osmanlı tarih yazarları ve eserleri," Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, (1992).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pecevi, Ibrahim 1572 births 1650 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire of Bosnian descent People from Pécs 17th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire Turks from the Ottoman Empire