Mesih Pasha

Mesih Pasha

Mesih Paşa or Misac Pasha[1] was an Ottoman statesman. He served as Kapudan Pasha and was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1499-1501.[2] He was of Byzantine descent from the Palaiologos house and became Muslim.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Mehmed II the Conqueror and the fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turk, pg. 267, by Marios Philippides
  2. ^ Turkish State Archives
  3. ^ The companion guide to Istanbul and around the Marmara By John Freely, pg. 118