OTD 445 years ago, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was Assassinated in Constantinople
October 11, 2024
OTD 445 years ago, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was Assassinated in Constantinople
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Ah thats the guy who was stolen from his parents as a baby as part of “blood taxes”, good old times.
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (birth name Bajica Nenadić) was born in 1505 near modern-day Rudo, Bosnia & Herzegovina to Serbian Orthodox parents. His family would maintain a mixed Islamic & Christian background. Recruited as a Janissary early on, he would receive training & education at Topkapi Palace in Edirne.
The assassin, reportedly a “crazy dervish,” was allowed to enter his quarters, where he stabbed Sokollu Mehmed Pasha with a knife. The Grand Vizier died three hours later.
Local crime news.
Wish the same thing happened to every ottoman sultan and official in history
I found it interesting how early ottoman empire rumelia was dominated by South Slavs while later ottoman empire was dominated by Albanians, Greeks, Gerogians
How’s this relevant to r/Europe?
But why was it not Instabul? Why Constantinopole? Can any turk answer?
8 comments
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Ah thats the guy who was stolen from his parents as a baby as part of “blood taxes”, good old times.
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (birth name Bajica Nenadić) was born in 1505 near modern-day Rudo, Bosnia & Herzegovina to Serbian Orthodox parents. His family would maintain a mixed Islamic & Christian background. Recruited as a Janissary early on, he would receive training & education at Topkapi Palace in Edirne.
As a soldier he would fight in the [Battle of Mohács](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moh%C3%A1cs) and the first [Siege of Vienna](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Vienna_(1529)). As a commander, he led Ottoman forces in the conquest of much of Transylvania & Hungary. He would eventually impress the Sultan enough to receive a seat on the imperial council, and later become Grand Vizier.
As Grand Vizier, he convinced the Sultan to restore the [Serbian Patriarchate of Peć](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Patriarchate_of_Pe%C4%87) and he appointed his brother, Makarije Sokolović, as the Archbishop and Patriarch. He would also appoint his nephew, [Antonije Sokolović](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonije_I), as the Eastern Orthodox Archbishop of Ohrid.
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was assassinated on October 11th, 1579 by a Janissary believed to be in the employ of [Safiye Sultan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safiye_Sultan_(mother_of_Mehmed_III)), the ethnic-Albanian wife of Sultan Murad III.
The assassin, reportedly a “crazy dervish,” was allowed to enter his quarters, where he stabbed Sokollu Mehmed Pasha with a knife. The Grand Vizier died three hours later.
Local crime news.
Wish the same thing happened to every ottoman sultan and official in history
I found it interesting how early ottoman empire rumelia was dominated by South Slavs while later ottoman empire was dominated by Albanians, Greeks, Gerogians
How’s this relevant to r/Europe?
But why was it not Instabul? Why Constantinopole? Can any turk answer?