Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha
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Born | 1635 Austro-Turkish War (1663–64)
Cretan War (1645–69)
Polish–Ottoman War (1672–76)
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Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha (
Life
He was born into the Köprülü family, the son of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha and Ayşe Hatun (Hanım), daughter of Yusuf Ağa. His father was an Ottoman general of devshirme origin who in 1656 became Grand Vizier, while his mother was the daughter of a notable originally from Kayacık, a village of Havza in Amasya. His maternal grandfather was a voyvoda (tax-farmer)[4] who built a bridge in Kadegra, that because of this was renamed Köprü, where his father Mehmed was stationed, and to which the Köprülü family owes its name.[5]
He served as
He was dubbed Fazıl, meaning "wise" (from the Arabic fazilet, meaning "wisdom"), for reducing taxation and promoting education. On the other hand, he was brutal in war. He led the
Following this treaty, he concentrated on the
Contemporary European observers frequently remarked upon the
Fazıl Ahmed Pasha died on November 3, 1676, from complications resulting from his lifestyle of heavy drinking.[8]
See also
- Köprülü family
- Köprülü era of the Ottoman Empire
- List of Ottoman grand viziers
- List of Ottoman governors of Damascus
References
- ^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2002. p. 955.
- ISBN 978-1-4617-3176-4.
- ^ Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters, [1]
- ISBN 978-0-521-57455-6.
- ISBN 978-90-04-44235-1.
daughter of a certain Yusuf Ağa, a notable originally from the Kayacik (village) of Havza (town) at Amasya. Yusuf Ağa was the voyvod[a] of Kadegra, a district of Amasya, where Mehmed was sancakbey in 1634, kadegra was named Köprü [from which the Köprülü get their name] after a bridge that Yusuf Ağa constructed
- ISBN 978-975-333-041-1
- ^ Wurm, Heidrun (1971). Der osmanische Historiker Ḥüseyn b. Ğafer, genannt Hezārfenn, und die Istanbuler Gesellschaft in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz Verlag. p. 52. [in German]
- ISBN 978-0-465-02396-7.
External links
- Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911. .