Semiz Ali Pasha (, ) was an Ottoman Bosnian

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from the

Sanjak of Bosnia Sanjak of Bosnia (, / Босански санџак) was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire established in 1463 when the lands conquered from the Bosnian Kingdom were transformed into a sanjak and Isa-Beg Isaković was appointed its fi ...

who served as

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire The grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire ( or ''Sadr-ı Azam'' (''Sadrazam''); Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: or ) was the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, sultan in the Ottoman Empire, with the absolute p ...

from 1561 to 1565. He was the

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(governor) of

Egypt Eyalet Ottoman Egypt was an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire after the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517), conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517. The Ottomans administered Egypt as a Eyalet, province (''eyalet'') of their empir ...

from 1549 to 1553. Semiz Ali Pasha was born in Prača in

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(thus his secondary epithet), and replaced

Rüstem Pasha Rüstem Pasha (; ; 1505 – 10 July 1561) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. Rüstem Pasha is also known as Damat Rüstem Pasha (the epithet ''damat'' meaning 'son-in-law') as a result of ...

as a Grand Vizier. After palace schooling, he discharged high-level functions along the

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. His epithet "Semiz" means "fat" in

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. In 1561 he negotiated with the ambassador of the

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Ogier de Busbecq Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 in Comines, Nord, Comines – 29 October 1592 in Saint-Germain-sous-Cailly; ), sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century County of Flanders, Flemish writer, Herbalism, herbalist and diplomat in ...

, on the terms of a peace treaty which was ratified in

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in the following year.Ogier de Busbecq (2005), ''Turkish Letters'', Eland, London, pp. 124 - 160

In popular culture

In the TV series ''

Muhteşem Yüzyıl ''Muhteşem Yüzyıl'' (, ) is a Turkish historical drama series. Written by Meral Okay and Yılmaz Şahin, it is based on the life of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and his wife Hür ...

'', Semiz Ali Pasha was played by the Turkish actor Fatih Dokgöz.

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In popular culture

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