Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha (, , died 1602,

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) was an Ottoman statesman from the

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. He was

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between 24 December 1582 and 28 July 1584, 15 April 1586 and 2 April 1589,İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 23. and 4 April 1592 and 28 January 1593. He was from Kanizsa in modern-day Hungary, then part of first the

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and then the

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Marriage and issue

In 1573 he married Fatma Sultan, the youngest daughter of Sultan

Selim II Selim II (; ; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond () or Selim the Drunkard (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sul ...

and

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan (; 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583) and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire from ...

. They had four sons and a daughter: *Sultanzade Ahmed Bey (1573 – 1582/1583) *Sultanzade Mustafa Paşah (1575 – April 1599). He had issue. *Sultanzade Abdülkaadir Bey (1577 – 1583) *Sultanzade Süleyman Bey (1579 – 1583) *''Fülane'' Hanımsultan (October 1580 – October 1580). She birth before the time and died three days after. Her mother died in childbirth.

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Year of birth unknown 1602 deaths Devshirme Converts to Sunni Islam from Roman Catholicism Bosnian Muslims from the Ottoman Empire 16th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire Governors of the Ottoman Empire by eyalet People from the Ottoman Empire of Croatian descent Croatian former Christians Governors of the Ottoman Empire by sanjak 16th-century governors of the Ottoman Empire 16th-century slaves in the Ottoman Empire 17th-century slaves in the Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-bio-stub

Marriage and issue

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