Yemişçi Hasan Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Damat Yemişçi
Hasan
Office1:Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Monarch1:Mehmed III
Term Start1:22 July 1601
Term End1:4 October 1603
Predecessor1:Damat Ibrahim Pasha
Successor1:Yavuz Ali Pasha
Birth Date:1535
Birth Place:Rogovë, Ottoman Empire, now near Gjakovë, District of Gjakova, Kosovo
Death Date:18 October 1603 (aged 68)
Death Place:Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, now Turkey
Nationality:Ottoman
Blank1:Ethnicity
Data1:Albanian

Damat Yemişçi Hasan Pasha (Jemishxhi; 1535, Rogovë, Kosovo – 18 October 1603, Istanbul, Turkey) was an Albanian Ottoman statesman.

Hasan, an Albanian[1] who spent his childhood in Rogovo, then went to Prizren, where he finished his primary education. He pursued the remainder of his education at the military academy in Istanbul. After a military career, Hasan became grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1602 to 1603. He was executed by Sultan Mehmed III in 1603.[2]

He married Ayşe Sultan (1570 – 15 May 1605), a daughter of Murad III, on 5 April 1602. She had previously been married to Damat Ibrahim Pasha.

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Notes and References

  1. Danişmend (1971), p. 27. (Turkish)
  2. Book: Barkey, Karen. Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization. limited. Cornell University Press. 1997. 203. 0-8014-8419-7.