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Zaganos or Zagan Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: زاغنوس پاشا, Turkish: Zağanos Paşa, Albanian: Zognush Pasha; c. 1426 – 1469) was an Albanian Ottoman military commander, with the titles and ranks of kapudan pasha and the highest military rank, grand vizier, during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror".
Ottoman reaction was swift and decisive: Mehmed II dispatched his Grand Vizier, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, with an army against the Venetians.
The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( Turkish: Vezir-i Azam or Sadr-ı Azam ( Sadrazam ); Ottoman Turkish: صدر اعظم or وزیر اعظم) was the de facto prime minister of the sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute power of attorney and, in principle, removable only by the sultan himself in the classical period, before the Tanzimat reforms, ...
Grand Vizier(portrait)Grand Vizier ...(epithet Name (birth–death))Term Of Office(took Office)Term Of Office(left Office)Alaeddin Pasha (d. 1331)1320133111 years1331134817 years134813491 year1349September 1364 † (Died in office)15 yearsApr 30, 2024 · Mehmed II (born March 30, 1432, Adrianople, Thrace, Ottoman Empire—died May 3, 1481, Hunkârçayırı, near Maltepe, near Constantinople) was an Ottoman sultan from 1444 to 1446 and from 1451 to 1481.
- Halil Inalcik
- What were Mehmed II’s achievements?Mehmed the Conqueror expanded the Ottoman Empire, leading the siege of Constantinople in 1453 and extending the empire’s reach into the Balkans. Th...
- How did Mehmed II come to power?Mehmed II acceded to the throne twice. In the first instance, at age 12, his father, Murad II, abdicated in his favour in accordance with a peace t...
- What were Mehmed II’s goals?Mehmed II had many ambitious goals, though they were only partially achieved in his lifetime. He aspired to extend the empire as far westward as It...
- What was Mehmed II’s legacy?Mehmed the Conqueror captured Constantinople and extended the Ottoman Empire into western Anatolia and the Balkans, which later became the heartlan...
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May 13, 2020 · Mehmed II (1432-1481 CE), also known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was the seventh and among the greatest sultans of the Ottoman Empire. His conquests consolidated Ottoman rule in Anatolia and the Balkans...
The grand vizier and other Turkish notables bitterly opposed the attack, ostensibly because it might draw a new Crusade but in fact because of their fear that the capture of the Byzantine capital might bring about the final triumph of the devşirme.
Under the sultan Mehmed II (reigned 1444–46, 1451–81), the Ottomans assumed the old Islamic practice of giving the title vizier to the office of the chief minister, but they had to use the distinguishing epithet “ grand.”
