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Çoban Mustafa Pasha

Çoban Mustafa Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: چوبان مصطفى باشا, "Mustafa Pasha the Shepherd"; died 1529) was an Ottoman statesman and vizier.

Skopje's Mustafa Pasha mosque

Career

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Likely born in Bosnia-Herzegovina or Serbian Sandzak,[1] and collected through Devshirme to Janissaries, where he gradually rose through the ranks, he eventually served as kapıcıbaşı, vizier, and beylerbey for the Ottoman Empire during various parts of his life.

After serving as kapıcıbaşı ("chief gatekeeper") for some time, Mustafa was appointed a vizier in 1511 under Bayezid II, and finally beylerbey (governor) of the Egypt Eyalet (province) of the empire in 1522, serving for one year (1522–1523).[2][3][4]

Mustafa Pasha was married to a daughter of Selim I, Şahzade Sultan[5][6] With her he had at least one daughter, named Ayşe Hanımsultan. Şahzade died before 1517, but their daughter lived at least until 1556. In 1522, Mustafa was remarried to another of Selim's daughters, Hafize Sultan, full sister of Sultan Suleiman I. They had a son, Sultanzade Kara Osman Shah Pasha.[7]

Mustafa Pasha Bridge, Svilengrad

Mustafa Pasha participated in the Siege of Belgrade in 1521 and the Siege of Rhodes the next year, both of them decisive Ottoman victories under sultan Suleiman I. During the Siege of Rhodes, he was the Serdar-ı Ekrem (the rank given to viziers in battle).

Mustafa Pasha died around April 1529 on the way to the Siege of Vienna.

Legacy

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Mausoleum ("türbe") of Çoban Mustafa Paşa in Gebze

In 1492, Mustafa Pasha ordered to be built the mosque in Skopje which bears his name.[8]

At some point, Mustafa Pasha had a bridge built in Svilengrad in southern Bulgaria, and it was named after him as Mustafa Pasha Bridge (now known as Old Bridge, Svilengrad).[1]

Mustafa Pasha's mausoleum is in Gebze, Turkey,[3] in a complex he had built himself and which was completed in 1522.[2]

See also

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Wide view of the entire length of the bridge over the Maritza

References

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  1. 1 2 Müderrisoğlu, F. (1995). "Bâni Çoban Mustafa Paşa ve Bir Osmanlı Şehri Gebze". Vakıflar Dergisi, Sayı: 25, S:67-124.
  2. 1 2 Türk Tarih Kurumu (1996). Belleten. p. 112.
  3. 1 2 Evli̇ya Çelebi̇ (1988). Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: Evliya Çelebi in Diyarbekir. Brill Archive. p. 61. ISBN 978-90-04-08165-9.
  4. ↑ Kaya Şahin (29 March 2013). Empire and Power in the Reign of Süleyman: Narrating the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman World. Cambridge University Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-1-107-03442-6.
  5. ↑ Called also Sultanzade Sultan
  6. ↑ İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı; Yavuz Sultan Selim'in Kızı Hanım Sultan ve Torunu Kara Osman Şah Bey Vakfiyeleri: "Yavuz Sultan Selim's daughters: Şehzade Hatun's husband Çoban Mustafa Pasha, Şah'i Sultan's husband Lütfi Pasha, Hanım Sultan's husband İskender Pasha, Fatma Sultan's husband Kara Ahmed Pasha, Sultan Süleyman's daughter, Mihrimah Sultan's husband Rüstem Pasha."
  7. ↑ Peirce, Leslie: Empress of the East (2017): Şehzâde Sultan and her daughter, who is unnamed appeared in the first extant Old Palace Harem register of Suleiman's reign dating 1555-56.
  8. ↑ "Mustafa Pasha Mosque". HAEMUS : Center for scientific research and promotion of culture. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  • "The Ottomans". Egypt State Information Service. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
  • Süreyya, Bey M, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit A. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı ile Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın ortak yayınıdır, 1996. Print.
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