Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- admiral
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
- Region
- Anatolia · Maghreb
- Identifiers
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Life in time
Summary
Hüseyin Pasha, nicknamed 'Mezzomorto' — 'half-dead' in Italian — one of the Ottoman sea commanders 1.
Of the derya beys, he captained the galleons then became beylerbey of Algiers; appointed kapudan-ı derya in 1101/1689–90, dismissed soon after, and restored to the post a second time in Muharram 1107/August 1695, dying in office on 14 Safar 1113/21 July 1701. The Sicill-i Osmani calls him 'courageous and zealous'. His son was Said Bey and a daughter of his lies buried on the Kashgar road 1.
Sources
- Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 3, 'Hüseyin Paşa (Mezemorta)'
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islam.museum contributors. “Mezzomorto Hüseyin Pasha”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/mezzomorto-huseyin-pasha/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.