Semiz Ali Pasha

In this Ottoman Turkish style name, the given name is Ali, the title is Pasha, and there is no family name.

Semiz Ali Pasha
34th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
In office 10 July 1561 – 28 June 1565
Monarch	Suleiman I
Preceded by	Rüstem Pasha
Succeeded by	Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Personal details
Born	Prača, Ottoman Empire
Died	28 June 1565 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire

Semiz Ali Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: سيمز علي پاشا, Serbo-Croatian: Semiz Ali-Paša) was an Ottoman statesman from the Sanjak of Bosnia who served as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1561 to 1565. He was the beylerbey (governor) of Egypt Eyalet from 1549 to 1553.^[1][2][3] Semiz Ali Pasha was born in Prača in Bosnia (thus his secondary epithet), and replaced Rüstem Pasha as a Grand Vizier.^[4] After palace schooling, he discharged high-level functions along the Ottoman Empire.^[4] His epithet "Semiz" means "fat" in Turkish.

In 1561 he negotiated with the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire, Ogier de Busbecq, on the terms of a peace treaty which was ratified in Vienna in the following year.^[5]

In popular culture

In the TV series Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Semiz Ali Pasha was played by the Turkish actor Fatih Dokgöz.

See also

• List of Ottoman grand viziers
• List of Ottoman governors of Egypt

References

1. Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman (eds.), Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, ISBN 9789753330411
2. Yılmaz Öztuna (1994). Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi (in Turkish). Vol. 10. Ötüken Neşriyat A.S. pp. 412–416. ISBN 975-437-141-5.
3. Giancarlo Casale (26 January 2010). The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford University Press. pp. 87, 102. ISBN 978-0-19-979879-7.
4. Murvar, Vatro (1989). Nation and Religion in Central Europe and the Western Balkans: The Muslims in Bosna, Hercegovina, and Sandžak : a Sociological Analysis. FSSSN Colloquia and Symposia, University of Wisconsin. p. 34.
5. Ogier de Busbecq (2005), Turkish Letters, Eland, London, pp. 124 - 160

Political offices
Preceded by Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha as acting Governor	Ottoman Governor of Egypt 1549–1554	Succeeded by Dukakinzade Mehmed Pasha
Preceded by Rüstem Pasha	Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire 10 July 1561 – 28 June 1565	Succeeded by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha