Mahmud Pasha Angelović

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In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Mahmud, the title is Pasha, and the family name is Angelović.
Mahmud Angelović
Zaganos Pasha
Succeeded byRum Mehmed Pasha
Personal details
Born1420
Battle of Kljuc (1463)
  • Ottoman conquest of Bosnia
  • Battle of Zvornik (1464)
  • Battle of Byshek (1467)
  • Siege of Krujë (1467)
  • Siege of Negroponte (1470)
  • Battle of Otlukbeli
  • Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479)

    • Mahmud Pasha Angelović (

    Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1456 to 1466 and from 1472 to 1474. He also wrote Persian and Turkish poems under the pseudonym Adni (the "Eden-like").[1]

    Born in the Serbian Despotate, he was a descendant of the Byzantine

    Muslim in Edirne, he was a capable soldier and was married to a daughter of Zaganos Pasha. After distinguishing himself at the Siege of Belgrade
    in 1456, he was raised to the position of Grand Vizier as a reward, succeeding his father-in-law Zaganos Pasha. Throughout his tenure, he led armies or accompanied Mehmed II on his own campaigns.

    Origin and early life

    After the

    Mihailo Anđelović
    .

    It is estimated that Angelović was born in the early 1420s.

    Mihailo Anđelović, later a prominent Serbian statesman, after the Turkish conquest.[8]

    According to Tahsin Yazıcı, Angelović was "born to a Greek or Serbian family".[9] Dejan Djokić stated that Angelović was born "to a Serb mother and a Greek refugee father – no less than son of the last Angeloi ruler of Thessaly who had emigrated to Serbia in the late fourteenth century".[10]

    Chalkokondyles mentions that Angelović was captured by Ottoman horsemen while travelling with his mother from Novo Brdo to

    şeyhülislam (Islamic scholar).[14]
    Upon conversion to Islam, he received the name Mahmud.

    Little is known about his activities before 1453. According to T. Stavrides, Angelović and his companions were educated in the palace, probably as

    Mehmed, the future sultan.[15] Sources do not agree on which posts he held at the palace.[16]

    Life

    Remains of Mahmud Pasha hamam at Lower Town of Golubac Fortress.

    Mahmud Pasha was a capable soldier. After distinguishing himself at the

    Zaganos Pasha.[17] Throughout his tenure he led armies or accompanied Mehmed II on his own campaigns.[18]

    In 1458, the Serbian Despot Lazar Branković died. Mahmud's brother Mihailo became member of a collective regency, but he was soon deposed by the anti-Ottoman and pro-Hungarian faction in the Serbian court. In reaction, Mahmud attacked and seized Smederevo Fortress, although the citadel held out, and seized some additional strongholds in its vicinity. Threatened by a possible Hungarian intervention however he was forced to withdraw south and join the forces of Sultan Mehmed II at Skopje.[19] In 1461, he accompanied Mehmed in his campaign against the Empire of Trebizond, the last surviving fragment of the Byzantine Empire. Mahmud negotiated the surrender of the city of Trebizond with the protovestiarios, the scholar George Amiroutzes, who was also his cousin.[20]

    In 1463, Mahmud led the invasion and conquest of the Kingdom of Bosnia, even though a peace treaty between Bosnia and the Ottomans had just been renewed. He captured the Bosnian king, Stephen Tomašević, at Ključ, and obtained from him the cession of the country to the Empire.[19]

    Angelović accompanied Mehmed II when he attacked

    Albania Veneta in the summer of 1467, and ravaged the lands. For 15 days he pursued Skanderbeg, who was a Venetian ally at the time, but failed to find him, as Skanderbeg retreated into the mountains and then succeeded in fleeing to the coast.[21] According to Tursun Beg and Ibn Kemal, Angelović swam over Bojana, attacked Venetian-controlled Scutari, and plundered the surrounding area.[22]

    Mahmud was dismissed in 1468 due to the machinations of his successor, Rum Mehmed Pasha, ostensibly due to irregularities regarding the resettlement of the Karamanids in Constantinople following the conquest of Karaman earlier in that year.[23] He was reinstated in 1472, but his relations with the Sultan were now strained. Mahmud was fired and executed in 1474. The cause was the suspicion that he was involved in the sudden death of Şehzade Mustafa, the favorite son of Sultan Mehmed II. It was said that Şehzade Mustafa had an affair with Mahmud's wife, Selçuk Hatun (sister of Hatice Hatun, the youngest consort of Mehmed II), and that Mahmud poisoned him for it. Mahmud denied it but, even without proof, Mehmed II still decided to execute him.[24]

    Literary output

    Mahmud Pasha wrote works in

    Turkish with "Adni" as his pen name.[9] The divan he composed includes 45 ghazals and 21 mofrads in Persian, as well as "some rather successful naziras on the ghazals of Zahir Faryabi and Hafez".[9] Tahsin Yazıcı adds that Mahmud Pasha "also wrote a number of official letters in Persian".[9]

    Family

    He married Selçuk Hatun, daughter of

    Zaganos Pasha by his first wife Sitti Nefise Hatun, and they had a son named Ali Bey and a daughter named Hatice Hatun. His wife became lover to Şehzade Mustafa, son of Sultan Mehmed II
    . For this reason, Mahmud was suspected of involvement in Mustafa's death and executed.

    References

    1. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 311.
    2. ISBN 9780253008749
      .
    3. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 311 "Mahmud Pasha's Pseudonym – According to all indications, the pseudonym (mahlas) used by Mahmud Pasha when writing poetry was Adni (the Eden-like) and this is indicated by most sources, most particularly Asik Celebi and Sehi Beg, who ..."
    4. ^ Babinger 1992, p. 476 "With the possible exception of the grand vizier Mahmud Pasha, who under the pseudonym of Adni wrote Persian and Ottoman Turkish rhymes, the period offers no further poets of above-average quality. Among the poets it seems fitting to mention as ..."
    5. ^ a b c Stavrides 2001, p. 77.
    6. ^ Stavrides 2001, pp. 73–74, 76–77.
    7. ^ Stavrides 2001, pp. 78–93.
    8. ^ Stavrides 2001, pp. 93–100.
    9. ^ a b c d Yazici 1983, p. 470.
    10. ISBN 978-1-107-02838-8
      .
    11. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 107.
    12. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 108.
    13. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 108–110.
    14. ^ Stavrides 2001, pp. 108–109.
    15. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 110.
    16. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 111–112.
    17. ^ Finkel 2006, p. 78
    18. ^ Finkel 2006, pp. 78–79, 559, 560.
    19. ^ a b Finkel 2006, p. 60.
    20. ^ Finkel 2006, p. 62
    21. ^ Stavrides 2001, pp. 163, 164.
    22. ^ Stavrides 2001, p. 164.
    23. ^ Finkel 2006, pp. 78–79.
    24. ^ Finkel 2006, p. 79

    Sources

    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Zaganos Pasha
    Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

    1456–1466     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

    1472–1474     		Succeeded by
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