Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IEvliya Çelebi
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Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. I
Evliya Çelebi
Caucasus, South -- Description and travel; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History
Behram Pasha; Davúd Pasha, who died Governor of Egypt; Oveis Pasha,
Governor of Shám (Damascus); Dukakin Zádeh Gházi Mohammed Pasha,
Governor of Egypt; Oveis Pasha, Governor of Yemen (Arabia), he quaffed
the cup of martyrdom at the hand of Pehlevan Hassan, the robber;
Oz-demir Pasha, a relation of Ghori, the last Sultán of Egypt, a
Circassian by birth, and Conqueror of Habush (Abyssinia); Gházi Omer
Pasha, who built a mosque and imaret at Belgrade; Gházi Kásim Pasha,
who when Suleimán raised the siege of Pech (Vienna), headed the party
which made an excursion into Germany, and came round by Venedik
(Venice) to Essek with only three hundred men, the others having fallen
martyrs in the expedition: I visited many of their tombs in different
places in Germany; Gozlujeh Rustam Pasha, Aga of the Janissaries, and
afterwards Governor of Bodin (Buda); Suleimán Pasha, educated in the
harem: he died at Astúli (Stuhlweissenburg), of which he was Governor,
and was buried before its gate; Othmán Pasha, a Circassian, educated
in the Seraï, who was rewarded with the government of Rumeïli for a
night attack upon the Persian camp at Nakhchéván; Gházi Hassan Pasha,
who was in Arabia and Abyssinia, whence he went to Temeswar, of which
he was made Governor; Solak Ferhád Pasha, Governor of Baghdád, where
he died; Baltaji Mohammed Pasha, a Bosnian, who was dismissed from the
governorship of Baghdád, and died at Islámból; Harem Pasha, a Bosnian;
Pír Pasha, of the family of Ramezan; Kobad Pasha, step-brother of the
preceding; Músá Pasha, of the family of Isfendiyár,—he was Governor
of Erzerúm, and died in the war against the Georgian infidels; Khádem
Ali Pasha, who died whilst Governor of Cairo; Arslan Pasha, the son of
Sokolli Mohammed Pasha: he built the powder-magazine at Bódin (Buda),
and was executed on suspicion of having given up Tátá and Pápá to the
infidels; Ayás Pasha, brother of the Grand Vezir, Sinán Pasha: he was
beheaded; Behrám Pasha, Governor of Baghdád; Jenáblí Ahmed Pasha, who
was twenty years Governor of Anatóli, and built a mulevi (convent) and
bath at Angora; Olama Pasha, who was taken prisoner by the Persians,
amongst whom he became a Khán, but afterwards deserted them, and
returning to Rumeïli obtained the Sanják of Lippova, where he was
killed, after having sustained a siege of forty days. Yorksa Pasha,
educated in the harem; Shemsí Pasha, of the family of Kuzil Ahmedli,
and brother of the Vezir Mustafa Pasha: he was the confidential
minister of three Sultáns; Hájí Ahmed Pasha, of the same family; Damád
Hassan Pasha, the Sultan’s brother-in-law: he was sent as Ambassador
to Persia on account of the flight of the Prince Báyazíd, and suffered
martyrdom at Sivás: I have visited his tomb; Iskender Pasha, first
Bóstánjí báshí, and then Governor of Anatoli; Cherkess Iskender Pasha,
for fifteen years Governor of Díárbekr, where he died; Temerrúd Ali
Pasha, a native of Bosnia; Kara Mustafa Pasha, he was taken from the
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