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Topal Recep Pasha

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c. 1632 CE · 1041 AH

Recep Pasha, nicknamed 'Topal' (the Lame); a Bosnian raised in the bostancı corps to bostancıbaşı, then kapıcılar kethüdası and chief equerry and married to Gevherhan Sultan; made serdar of the Black Sea with vizier rank in 1033/1624, kaymakam in 1035, and grand vizier in 1041/1631–32 — dying six months later 1.

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Roles
Ruler · military-leader
Era
The Gunpowder Empires
Region
Anatolia
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15501575160016251650167517001725 c. c.
The Gunpowder Empires Contemporaries: Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan · Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi · Abd al-Rauf al-Sinkili · Abu al-Mafakhir of Banten · Abu Salim al-Ayyashi

Summary

Recep Pasha, nicknamed 'Topal' — the Lame — an Ottoman grand vizier of Bosnian origin 1.

Raised in the bostancı corps, he became bostancıbaşı, then kapıcılar kethüdası and chief equerry, and married Gevherhan Sultan. Made serdar of the Black Sea with vizier rank in 1033/1624, kaymakam to the grand vizier in 1035/1625–26, and grand vizier in 1041/1631–32, dying some six months into the office 1.

Sources

  1. Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 4, 'Receb Paşa (Topal)'
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