Category: Biographies
The teaching of history in Constantinople naturally leads to an interest in the history of Turkey, and also to the recognition that little has been written on that subject except on the side of political relations with Europe. One who desires to present to western readers a br...
The teaching of history in Constantinople naturally leads to an interest in the history of Turkey, and also to the recognition that little has been written on that subject excep...
2. CHAPTER I3. CHAPTER II4. CHAPTER III5. CHAPTER IV6. CHAPTER VThe life of Ibrahim Pasha, as full of strange events as the most highly‐colored romance, paradoxical, and to western students of society almost incomprehensible in its rapid cha...
7. CHAPTER IIbrahim was a Christian of base extraction, the son of a Greek sailor of Parga.[7] He was born in 1494.[8] In his childhood he was captured by Turkish corsairs.[9] It would seem...
8. CHAPTER IIAfter 1522 Ibrahim Pasha combined in his person the highest administrative, diplomatic and military functions. Although these naturally interact, it is our plan to consider them...
9. CHAPTER IIIWe must now turn from Turkey’s internal affairs to her foreign relations. Turkish political history during the sixteenth century was so interwoven with that of the European stat...
10. CHAPTER IVSuleiman’s reign was one of continuous war, and for the most part, conquest. His two most redoubtable enemies were the infidel Hungarians and the heretic Persians. His first gre...
11. CHAPTER VOn March 5th, 1536[184] Ibrahim Pasha betook himself to the imperial palace in Stamboul to dine with the sultan and spend the night with his Majesty, according to a long establi...