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Rum Mehmed Pasha

روم محمد باشا

Rum Mehmed Pasha, a vizier of Mehmed II; al-Salabi records that when the Karamanid emirate was annexed and its craftsmen ordered transferred to Constantinople, Rum Mehmed wronged the deportees — among them scholars such as Ahmad Çelebi ibn Amir Ali — and when the sultan learned of it he apologised to the scholar and returned him and his companions home in honour 1.

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grand-vizier
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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Summary

Rum Mehmed Pasha, a vizier of Mehmed II 1.

The Karaman deportations

Al-Salabi records that when Mehmed annexed the Karamanid emirate and ordered its craftsmen transferred to Constantinople, Rum Mehmed Pasha wronged the deportees — among them scholars and men of merit such as Ahmad Çelebi ibn Amir Ali; when the sultan learned of it he apologised to the scholar and returned him and his companions home in honour 1.

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 139
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