Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha Explained

Kanijeli Siyavuş Pasha (Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928);: کانیجلی سیاوش پاشا, Sijavuš-paša Kanjižanin, died 1602, Istanbul) was an Ottoman statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia. He was Grand Vizier between 24 December 1582 and 28 July 1584,^[1] 15 April 1586 and 2 April 1589,^[2] and 4 April 1592 and 28 January 1593.^[2] He was from Kanizsa in modern-day Hungary, then part of first the Sanjak and then the Eyalet of Bosnia.^[3]

Marriage and issue

In 1573 he married Fatma Sultan, the youngest daughter of Sultan Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan.

They had four sons and a daughter:

• Sultanzade Ahmed Bey (1573 - 1582/1583)
• Sultanzade Mustafa Paşah (1575 - April 1599). He had issue.
• Sultanzade Abdülkaadir Bey (1577 - 1583)
• Sultanzade Süleyman Bey (1579 - 1583)
• Fülane Hanımsultan (October 1580 - October 1580). She birth before the time and died three days after. Her mother died in childbirth.

See also

• List of Ottoman grand viziers

Notes and References

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2. İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971, p. 23.
3. http://www.bosanskehistorije.com/ottomanska-bosna/1890-osmanskim-carstvom-zapravo-su-vladali-bonjaci