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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, or until the 1908 Revolution.
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Died. 9 November 1901. Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Nationality. Ottoman. Halil Rifat Pasha ( Modern Turkish: Halil Rıfat Paşa; 1820 [Notes 1] –9 November 1901) was an Ottoman parliamentarian and statesman during the First Constitutional Era. He furthermore served as the Grand Vizier for six years between 1895 until his death in 1901, during ...
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Grand vizier. Grand vizier ( Persian: وزيرِ اعظم, romanized : vazîr-i aʾzam; Ottoman Turkish: صدر اعظم, romanized : sadr-ı aʾzam; Turkish: sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. It was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate.
The sultan's absolute deputy in the Ottoman Empire; acted for the sultan in military and civil matters and presided over the imperial diwan (royal court), which consisted of ordinary viziers (ministers) as well as other officers of state.
The grand vizier was the absolute representative of the sultan, whose signet ring he kept as an insignia of office. His actual power, however, varied with the vigour of the sultans. In 1654 the grand vizier acquired an official residence known as the Babıâli (Sublime Porte), which replaced the palace as the effective centre of Ottoman ...
Grand vizier was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. It was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate. It was then held in the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Sokoto Caliphate, the Safavid Empire and Morocco. In the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Vizier held the imperial seal and could convene all other viziers to attend ...
Grand Vizier, deriving from the Arabic word vizier (وزير), was the prime minister of the king, with absolute power of attorney and, in principle, dismissable only by the king himself. He held the imperial seal and could convene all other viziers to attend to affairs of the state; the viziers in conference were called "Kubbealtı viziers" in reference to their meeting place, the Kubbealtı ...
