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Grand vizier was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. It was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate. It was then held in the Ott
Koca Sinan Pasha
Bairam Khan
Abu'l Fazl Ibn Mubarak presenting the Akbarnama to the emperor (D. 1602 AD)
Sadullah Khan
Çandarlı Halil Pasha, also known as the Younger, was the grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1439 to 1453 under the sultans Murad II and, for the first few years of his reign, Mehmed II. A member
Grand vizier
…Initially, the grand viziers were exclusively of Turk origin in the Ottoman Empire. However, after there were troubles between the Turkish grand vizier Çandarlı Halil Pasha the Younger and Sultan Mehmed II (who had him executed), there was a rise of slave administrators (devshirme). These were much easier for the sultans to control…
Tomb of Çandarlı Halil Pasha in İznik