Mahomet Sirocco Explained

Şuluk Mehmed Pasha (1525 – 7 October 1571), better known in Europe as Mehmed Siroco or Mahomet Sirocco,[1] [2] and also spelled Sulik, Chulouk, Şolok, Seluk, or Suluc and known with the titles Pasha, Reis, or Bey, was the Ottoman Bey (regional governor) of Alexandria in the mid-16th century.[3] [4] Both the foreign and the Turkish nicknames (and their various spellings) were derived from the name of the southern Mediterranean wind Sirocco, from Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: σιρόκος sirokos and the hence derived Levantine Arabic Arabic: شلوق shlūq, respectively.[5]

Mehmed Siroco was appointed admiral in command of the Turkish right at the Battle of Lepanto (1571).[6] [7] [8] Fighting the Lega Santa led by Admiral Agostino Barbarigo, he was known as the most aggressive attacker of the battle.[9] He was wounded and killed in action when he struggled against Venetians at the Battle of Lepanto, as was Barbarigo.[10] Mehmed Siroco was beheaded by the sword of Giovanni Contarini the Venetian.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Capponi, Niccolò . Victory of the West: the great Christian-Muslim clash at the Battle of Lepanto . registration . 2007. 9780306815447 . Cambridge.
  2. Book: Setton, Kenneth Meyer . The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Volume 161 . 1984 . Philadelphia.
  3. Book: Byfield, Ted . A Century of Giants, A.D. 1500 to 1600 . 2010 . Edmonton.
  4. Book: Angus Konstam. Lepanto 1571: The Greatest Naval Battle of the Renaissance. 1 January 2003. Osprey Publishing. 978-1-84176-409-2. 23.
  5. Book: T. C. F. Hopkins. Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam. 26 June 2007. Tom Doherty Associates. 978-1-4668-4149-9. 93.
  6. Book: Beach, Chandler Belden . The student's cyclopaedia: Volume 1. 1895 . Chicago and Philadelphia.
  7. The Battle of Lepanto. November 1857. 1. 1. The Atlantic Monthly. Atlantic Monthly Company. 140–143.
  8. Book: Hanson, Victor Davis. Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power. 2007-12-18. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 978-0-307-42518-8. en.
  9. Web site: Battle of Lepanto . Matt Fritz . 12 January 2014 .
  10. Book: Feist, Aubrey . The lion of St. Mark: Venice: the story of a city from Attila to Napoleon . 1971 . Indianapolis.
  11. Book: Roberto Muñoz Bolaños. Battle of Lepanto, 1571. ALMENA. 9783042754810.

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