Skip to the content
AuthorShort verified entry

Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Paşa

Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Paşa (1544–1605) was an Ottoman privateer, military personnel and writer.

Also recorded as Scipione Cicala · Yusuf Sinan Paşa · Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha

Identificatie Titel(s): Portret van kapitein Zigala Bassa

Rijksmuseum · CC0

Biography

Born at Messina in 1544, died in Diyarbakır in 1605.

The recorded working language is Ottoman Turkish, Turkish and Arabic.

Positions recorded include grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and kapudan pasha.

Named by the record

Places

Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.

  • Messina

    Birth place

  • Diyarbakır

    Death place

Citations

References

Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.

Elsewhere in Books

For owners

Own a work by Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Paşa?

A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.