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Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: صوقوللى محمد پاشا, romanized: Sokollu Mehmet Paşa; Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмед-паша Соколовић, romanized: Mehmed-paša Sokolović; pronounced [měxmet pâʃa sokǒːloʋitɕ]; 1505 – 11 October 1579) was an Ottoman statesman of Serbian origin most notable for ...
Sokollu Mehmed Paşa was an Ottoman grand vizier (chief minister) from June 1565, under the sultans Süleyman the Magnificent and Selim II, and perhaps the real ruler of the empire until the death of Selim in 1574. During his tenure, a war was fought with Venice (1570–73), in which the Ottoman navy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Enter Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, one of the most compelling personalities of the entire sixteenth century and the mastermind of the Ottoman Empire's last great push into the Indian Ocean.
The Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque is a great late work of the Ottoman master architect Mimar Sinan. In the 16th century, he achieved perfection with the hexagonal dome. With the foundation of the quadrangular square, a generous and pleasant atmosphere was created by placing the dome with four half-domes over the square.
Sokollu Mehmed Pasha was an Ottoman statesman of Serbian origin most notable for being the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. Born in Ottoman Herzegovina into an Orthodox Christian family, Mehmed was recruited as a young boy as part of so called "blood tax" to serve as a janissary to the Ottoman devşirme system of recruiting Christian boys to ...
Sokollu (or Sokullu) Mehmed Pasha was born in Sokol of Bosnia in 1505. Thanks to his honest and trusty public service he was quickly promoted to higher ranks in the Ottoman Empire. After the death of Barbaros Hayrettin in 1546 he became the Admiral of the Navy and later General of the Army.
In Casale’s vision, Sokollu Mehmed Pasha not only profited personally from the spice trade, but also used it as an implement of foreign policy, most obviously with Aceh, which exchanged Achenese pepper for Ottoman cannon. 36 Casale argues for a much more coordinated and extensive Ottoman policy toward the Indian Ocean, promoted by an ...
