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SWAN PASHA (1515-1596)

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SWAN See also:PASHA (1515-1596) , See also:Turkish soldier and statesman, was an Albanian of See also:low origin. In 1569 he was appointed See also:governor of See also:Egypt and was occupied until 1571 in the See also:conquest of See also:Yemen. In 1574 he commanded the See also:great expedition against See also:Tunis, which, in spite of the brave See also:defence by the See also:Spanish and See also:Italian See also:garrison, was added to the See also:Ottoman See also:empire. In 1580 Sinan commanded the See also:army against See also:Persia and was appointed See also:grand See also:vizier, but was disgraced and exiled in the following See also:year, owing to the rout of his See also:lieutenant Mahommed Pasha, at See also:Gori, in an See also:attempt to See also:provision the Turkish garrison of See also:Tiflis. He subsequently became governor of See also:Damascus and, in 1589, after the great revolt of the See also:Janissaries, was appointed grand vizier for the second See also:time. Another revolt of Janissaries led to his dismissal in 1591, but in 1593 he was again recalled to become grand vizier for the third time, and in the same year he commanded the Turkish army against See also:Hungary. In spite of his victories he was again deposed in See also:February 1595, shortly after the See also:accession of Mahommed III., and banished to Malghara; but in See also:August was in See also:power again and on the See also:march to Wallachia. The unhappy course of this See also:campaign, culminating in the fall of Gran, brought him once more into disfavour, and he was deprived of the See also:seal of See also:office (See also:November 19). The See also:death of his successor, Lala Mahommed, three days later, was looked on as a sign from See also:heaven, and Sinan became grand vizier for the fifth time. He died suddenly on the 3rd of See also:April 1596. Bold, overbearing and unscrupulous, Sinan recoiled from no baseness to put a See also:rival out of the way; while his insolence was not confined to See also:foreign ambassadors, but was exercised towards his opponents in the See also:sultan's presence. He had a barbarous hatred not only for Christians but for all See also:civilization.

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fortune which he See also:left is a See also:proof of his rapacity. Another Sinan Pasha was governor of See also:Anatolia at the time of Mahommed II.'s death in 1481. He was a See also:brother-in-See also:law of Bayezid II. and defeated See also:Prince Jem's troops at See also:Brusa. In See also:Selim I.'s reign he served with great distinction in the See also:Persian and See also:Egyptian See also:campaigns and See also:fell at the See also:battle of Ridania, where the Mamelukes were defeated, in 1517. A third Sinan Pasha, brother of the grand vizier Rustem Pasha, was grand See also:admiral under See also:Suleiman I. and died about 1553. See J. v. See also:Hammer-Purgstall, Gesch. See also:des Osmanischen Reiches (2nd ed.. Pesth. 1840), and authorities there cited.

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