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KARA MUSTAFA (d. 1683)

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KARA MUSTAFA (d. 1683) , See also:

Turkish See also:vizier, surnamed " Merzifunli," was a son of Uruj See also:Bey, a notable Sipahi of Merzifun (Marsovan), and See also:brother-in-See also:law to Ahmed See also:Kuprili, whom he succeeded as See also:grand vizier in 1676, after having for some years held the See also:office of Kaimmakam or locum tenens. His greed and ostentation were equalled by his incapacity, and he behaved with characteristic insolence to the See also:foreign ambassadors, from whom he extorted large bribes. After conducting a See also:campaign in See also:Poland which terminated unfortunately, he gave a ready response to the See also:appeal for aid made by the Hungarians under Imre Thokoly (q.v.) when they See also:rose against See also:Austria, his See also:hope being to See also:form out of the See also:Habsburg dominions a Mussulman See also:empire of the See also:West, of which he should be the See also:sultan. The See also:plan was foiled-in See also:part by his own lack of military skill, but chiefly through the heroic resistance of See also:Vienna and its timely See also:relief by See also:John Sobieski, See also:king of Poland. Kara Mustafa paid for his defeat with his See also:life; he was beheaded at See also:Belgrade in 1683 and his See also:head was brought to the sultan on a See also:silver dish. Another KARA MUSTAFA See also:PASHA (d. 1643), who figures in Turkish See also:history, was by See also:birth a Hungarian, who was enrolled in the See also:Janissaries, rose to be Kapudan Pasha under See also:Murad IV., and after the See also:capture of See also:Bagdad was made grand vizier. He was severe, but just and impartial, and strove to effect necessary reforms by reducing the See also:numbers of the Janissaries, improving the coinage, and checking the See also:state See also:expenditure. But the discontent of the Janissaries led to his dismissal and See also:death in 1643.

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