Hadım Sinan Pasha

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Hadım Sinan Pasha ( Ottoman خادم سنان پاشا, Turkish Hadım Sinan Paşa , Bosnian Sinan-paša Borovinić ; * 1459 ; † January 22, 1517 near Cairo ) was an Ottoman statesman and from 1516 to 1517 Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire .

Life

According to documents from the Republic of Ragusa , the noble Borovinić family came from the village of Borovinići near Foča . Sinan's ancestor Tvrtko Borovinić was a close relative of the Voivode of the Kingdom of Bosnia Radoslav Pavlović . Sinan began his career as a eunuch ( hadım ) in the Sultan's palace as one of the Akağalar, the white palace servants.

As of December 1496, Sinan Sandschakbey was of Bosnia. From 1504 to 1506 he served as the Sanjakbey of Herzegovina. In 1507/08 he expanded the Mostar Mosque, built in 1473 by an earlier Sinan Pasha, who was the first Sanjakbey of Herzegovina. From 1506 to 1513 it then served as the Sanjakbey of Smederevo .

In 1514 the Sultan appointed him Beylerbey of Anatolia. In the battle of Tschaldiran against the Persian Safavids he was responsible for the right flank. After the victorious end he was appointed Beylerbey of Rumelien , one of the most prestigious offices of the empire. His next mission was to conquer the Dulkadirids in what is now southern Turkey. He defeated Bozkurt of Dulkadir in the Battle of Turnadağ . After conquering the Beyliks , Selim I appointed Sinan Grand Vizier on April 25, 1516.

Sinan was Selim's favorite grand vizier. He was actively involved in the conquest of Syria and Egypt . On October 28, 1516, he defeated a Mamluk army in the battle of Chan Yunis near Gaza . On January 22 of the following year he fought in the Battle of Raydaniyya in Egypt. In the Ottoman fighting tradition, the sultan was almost always at the headquarters of the Ottoman military camp. But the Battle of Raydaniyya was an exception. Selim I decided to encircle the Mamelukes personally and commissioned Sinan with the position in the headquarters. The plan was successful and the Mamelukes were defeated. Before the battle was over, however, the Mameluke cavalry under the Egyptian sultan Tuman Bay attacked the Ottoman headquarters and killed Sinan because the Mamelukes thought he was the sultan. After the battle, Sultan Selim I expressed his grief and said, "We won the battle, but we lost Sinan."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gibbon
  2. ↑ Osmanlı tarihi . Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1983, p. 541.
  3. ↑ a b Hadım Sinan Paşa , İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, accessed on May 8, 2020
  4. ↑ Naučno društvo of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Odjeljenje istorisko-filoloških nauka . Naučno društvo NR Bosne i Hercegovine, 1960
  5. ↑ Anali Gazi Husrev-begove biblioteke Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka, Sarajevo 1983, p. 34
  6. ↑ Hivzija Hasandedić: Spomenici kulture turskog doba u Mostaru . Veselin Masleša, 1980
  7. ↑ Evliya Çelebi, Hazim Šabanović: Putopisi: odlomci o jugoslovenskim zemljama . Sarajevo Publishing, Sarajevo 1996, p. 516
  8. ↑ Ayhan Buz: Osmanlı Sadrazamları , Neden Kitap, Istanbul 2009, ISBN 978-975-254-278-5 , p. 33
  9. ^ Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall : Osmanlı Tarihi . Volume I . Milliyet yayınları , Istanbul, p. 275
  10. ^ Yaşar Yüce, Ali Sevim: Türkiye tarihi . Volume 2, AKDTYKTTK Yayınları, Istanbul 1991, pp. 248f.
predecessor Office successor
Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
April 26, 1516 - January 22, 1517 		Yunus Pasha
personal data
SURNAME Hadim Sinan Pasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman statesman and grand vizier
DATE OF BIRTH 1459
PLACE OF BIRTH Bosnia
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1517
Place of death near Cairo