Zağan Paşa
Also recorded as Zaganos Pasha · Zağanos Paşa
Zağan Paşa

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- Born
- 1450
- Died
- 1464 · Balıkesir.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire
- Occupation
- politician · writer
- Languages
- Ottoman Turkish · Turkish · Arabic
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The recorded working language is Ottoman Turkish, Turkish and Arabic. Positions recorded include kapudan pasha and grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
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- 1.Yalçınkaya, M. Alaaddin "Mehmed Paşa (Zağanos)", Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi, İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş. C.2 s.174 ISBN 975-08-0072-9
- 2.Mehmed Süreyya (haz. Nuri Akbayar) (1996), Sicill-i Osmani, İstanbul:Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları ISBN 975-333-0383 C.II say.426 sicilliosmani01sruoft
- 3.Stavrides, p. 63
- 4.Jones 1973, p. 7
- 5.Emecen, Feridun. Zağanos Paşa. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi. TDV İslâm Araştırmaları Merkezi. 44. 72–73. 2013.
- 6.ZAĞANOS PAŞA. Feridun Emecen. 44.
- 7.Nicolle 2007, p. 189
- 8.Philippides 2007, p. 95
- 9.Philippides 2007, p. 171
- 10.Jones 1973, p. 32
- 11.Runciman 1965, pp. 94–95.
- 12.Crowley, Roger. 1453: the holy war for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hyperion, 2005. pp. 168–171.
- 13.Runciman 1965, pp. 126–128, 169–170
- 14.Jones 1973, p. 53
- 15.Philippides 2007, pp. 177–179
- 16.Peirce, Leslie. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. 1993. 9780199762569.
- 17.124.
- 18.Alderson, A. D. The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty. Clarendon Press. 1957. 978-0313225222.
- 19.Sakaoğlu, Necdet. Bu mülkün kadın sultanları: Vâlide sultanlar, hâtunlar, hasekiler, kadınefendiler, sultanefendiler. Oğlak publications. 2008. 978-9-753-29623-6.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- J. R. Melville Jones, The Siege of Constantinople 1453: Seven Contemporary Accounts, Hakkert, 1973, p. 7: "Zagan Pasha"
- Ellis Goldberg, Reşat Kasaba, Joel S. Migdal, "Rules and rights in the Middle East" (1993), p. 153
- Kinross, Patrick Balfour. The Ottoman centuries: the rise and fall of the Turkish Empire. Cape. 1977. 978-0-224-01379-6.
- Nicolle, David. The fall of Constantinople: the Ottoman conquest of Byzantium. Osprey Publishing. 189– Dead link. March 2023. 978-1-84603-200-4.
- Philippides, Marios. Mehmed II the Conqueror and the fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turks: some western views and testimonies. ACMRS/Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2007. 978-0-86698-346-4.
- Stavrides, Théoharis. The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453–1474). Brill. 2001. 978-90-04-12106-5.
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