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	Mehmed Pasha Sokolović - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mehmed Pasha Sokolović (in Turkish Sokollu Mehmet Paşa) (born 1505 or 1506, Sokolovići near Višegrad, Bosnia - died 1579 Istanbul, Turkey) was the Grand Vizier (1565 - 1579) of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II.
		Mehmed, however, suceeded in restoring the empire's shattered fleets and stared preparing for a fresh attack on Venice, when the Sultan's death cut short his plans.
		Mehmed Pasha Sokolović donated a bridge to his own people and to Bosnia: Ćuprija na Drini.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmed_Pasha_Sokolovic (649 words)

	Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mehmed Pasha Sokolović (in Turkish Sokollu Mehmet Paşa) (1505 or 1506-June 30 1579) was born in the village of Sokolovići near the town of Visegrad in Bosnia of Serbian parents.
		At this time it was a very common practice for the Turkish military to take young boys away from their families and raise them as loyal soldiers for their army, ultimately returning them to their place of origin to rule over their ancestral people; see Janissary.
		Within a few months of taking control of this region, while he was visiting the area where he was born, his mother recognized him by the birthmark on his face and once again embraced her child after more than thirty years.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Mehmed_Pasha_Sokolovic (275 words)

	mehmed pasha sokolovic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mehmed pasha Sokolović (Turkish Sokollu Mehmet Paşa) was a Serbian-born child out of town of Višegrad; in Bosnia.
		After a couple of starting months of his region ruling, he was visiting the area where he was born, his on mother recognized him by the birthmark on his face and she embraced again her child after more then thirty years.
		Mehmed pasha Sokolović was the first person of a Serbian decent to donate a bridge to his own people.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /mehmed_pasha_sokolovic.html (318 words)

	Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At this time it was a very common practice for the Turkish military to take young boys away from their families and raise them as loyal soldiers for their army, ultimately returning them to their place of origin to rule over their ancestral people; see (A Turkish soldier) Janissary.
		The (The ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)) Sultan in Istanbul was so impressed by the loyalty of his (now converted to Islam) high ranking officer, that he gave him a region of Bosnia to control, since he knew the language and customs of his people.
		Within a few months of taking control of this region, while he was visiting the area where he was born, his mother recognized him by the (A blemish on the skin formed before birth) birthmark on his face and once again embraced her child after more than thirty years.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mehmed_pasha_sokolovic.htm (209 words)

	KILLING MEMORY
		Among the most famous of these Bosnian converts was Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic (1505-1579), who served as grand vizier to three sultans, including Suleyman the Magnificent.
		Mehmed Pasha administered a domain that stretched from Yemen to the gates of Vienna, and married Princess Esmahan, Suleyman's granddaughter.
		Mehmed Pasha was a generous patron of architecture.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/killing.html (2917 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924
		Mehmed II identified himself so strongly with Alexander that he commissioned a biography of himself in Greek, from a minor Greek official, Michael Kritovoulos, on the same paper and in the same format as the copy of Arrian's life of Alexander in his library, which was read to him `daily'.
		Mehmed II was at war with neighbouring rulers, both Christian and Muslim, in Anatolia and the Balkans for most of his reign.
		Kritovoulos writes that Mehmed II `transported to the city those of the Armenians under his rule who were outstanding in point of property, wealth, technical knowledge and other qualifications and in addition those who were of the merchant class'.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/constantinople.htm (8290 words)

	Serbs and Albanians Under Turkish Rule
		Mehmed Sokolovic, a Serbian child from a village near Vishegrad, was a Turkish grand vizier.
		Mehmed Sokolovic served 3 sultans in a row with the highest possible loyalty and fidelity.
		After the Serbian Patriarchate was abolished (1556), it was a blessing for the Serbs to have had Mehmed Sokolovic in a position of power, and he reopened the Patriarchate (1557) and placed his brother, Makarius, in charge.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /bookstore/kosovo/kosovo3.htm (3999 words)

	The Kosovo Chronicles, by Dusan Batakovic (Part 1b)
		Fearing the renewed Serbian state, Kosovo pashas engaged in ruthless persecution in an effort to reduce number of Serbs living in their spacious holdings.
		The fertile plains of Kosovo became desolate meadows as the Malisor highlanders, unused to farming knew not to cultivate.
		The revolt of the ethnic Albanian pashas against the reforms introduced by the sultans and fierce clashes with regular Turkish troops in the thirties and forties of the 19th century, emphasized the anarchy in Kosovo and Metohia, causing fresh suffering among the Serbs and the further devastation of the ancient monasteries.
	www.snd-us.com /history/dusan/kc_part1b.htm (15212 words)

	eşref ziya mehmed web siteleri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The brother of Mehmed V Resad, he succeeded to the throne due to the suicide of Yusuf...
		Mehmed V Sultan Mehmed V Mehmed V Resad or Mahommed V, (November 2 1844 – July 3 1918), known as Reshid Effendi or Mehmed Resad was the.
		Mehmed VI the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, whose forced abdication and exile in 1922 prepared the way for the emergence of the Turkish Republic under...
	www.mqde.com /esref_ziya/mehmed.htm (523 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bosniak
		They had no right to marry until 1566, and even then could not marry until their retirement, although some Janissaries did return to Bosnia to raise families.
		Janissary settlers probably did not influence the demographics of Bosnia sigificantly, although many of Bosnia's Pashas and other officials were of Bosnian Christian origin through the devsirme system.
		As the Ottoman Empire began to contract after the defeat at Vienna in 1683, many Muslim refugees from the lost Ottoman territories in Croatia, Slavonia, Hungary, and, later, Serbia found refuge in Bosnia, and were assimilated into the local Bosniak population.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bosniak (4683 words)

	PASHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the PASHA Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the PASHA Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named PASHA at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/P/PASHA.htm (73 words)

	TOL Discussion Board [Powered by Invision Power Board]
		In his article http://www.tol.cz/look/CER/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=14&NrIssue=52&NrSection=5&NrArticle=10675 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) journalist (Anes Alic) writing for TOL said that Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic was "a young local Bosnian Serb boy was taken by Turks and trained to be an Ottoman official--is one of the country’s most damaged historical monuments." Nothing could be further from the truth.
		Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic was NOT "a young local Bosnian Serb boy", he was BOSNIAK of eastern orthodox faith.
		Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic was in serbian histography INACURATELY considered to be Makarija's brother and prominent world historians agree that Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic was not a Bosnian Serb.
	forums.tol.cz /index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=9&t=21 (943 words)

	Stari Most (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The year of construction and the masterbuilder are unknown but exists an inscription next to the bridge that data the bridge in 1577-1578 and points out Mehmed pasha Sokolovic as the masterbuilder.
		While they were minding their flocks in nearby Jarcedol, which overlooks the place where the bridge is today, one day found a hidden treasure in a cave.
		When they had shared the treasure equally, Mehmed built a bridge over Miljacka, while his brother Sinan erected a mosque at Bistrik which is popularly known as the Kecedzija mosque, from the turkish word Kec meaning goat, goatherd.
	www.gen-eng.florence.it /starimost/10_contr/roig/roig.htm (3858 words)

	[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] Dusan T. Batakovic: Kosovo-Metohija: The Serbo-Albanian Conflict
		Supported by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic (Sokollu), an Islamized Serb from Visegrad in Bosnia, the third vizier at the Porte, the Serbs obtained the restoration of the Patriarchate of Pec.
		The regrouping of the Orthodox Serbs into single religious organization was followed by the revival of old cults and the renewal of churches and monasteries - especially in Kosovo-Metohija which remained the centre of the Patriarchate.
		Kosovo-Metohija was ruled by renegade Albanian pashas who, like the conservative Muslim beys in Bosnia, wanted to preserve a status quo which would guarantee their privileges.
	www.rastko.org.yu /kosovo/istorija/batakovic/batakovic-kosovo_eng.html (5331 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 1579 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		June 25 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese samurai (born 1541)
		June 30 - Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Turkish Janissary (born 1505)
		Mehmed Sokollu, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (born 1505)
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/1579 (397 words)

	Kosovo.com: Kosovo Origins, by Hugo Roth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The beginnings of this forcible gathering of Christian children was ascribed to the Emir-sultan, Orkan, in 1329 while the organised perfecting of this tribute in blood was carried out by Murat in 1360.
		The janissaries became in time so tyrannical that they even represented a danger to the Sultans themselves with the result that Mehmed II abolished them in 1826.
		The most famous of those children taken in blood tribute was Mehmed-pasha Sokolovic (sixteenth century) who became Grand Vezier.
	www.kosovo.com /sk/history/kosovo_origins/ko_chapter6.html (2215 words)

	GENOCIDE IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
		Amongst the most famous of these Bosnian converts was Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, who served as grand vizier to three Ottoman sultans.
		Sokolovic said, or says in a paper he has written.
		In his view it is not a war, in fact, because if the Serb radicals who took control of most of Bosnia wanted a greater Serbia under their domination, it was theirs for the taking.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1995_hr/genocideinbosnia.html (13659 words)

	Serbia Info News / Sites and Places
		In doing this, he had two objectives: to punish the Serbs for the their uprising a year before (1594) and to pull out the roots of belief the Moslems had started to follow.
		The Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, as well as his brother Macarius come from the area of Prijepolje.
		The greatest merit of Mehmed Pasha was the renewal of the Pec Patriarchate and its continued uninterrupted activity (16th century).
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-07/28/13602.html (3690 words)

	BECEJ - Archeology and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By the middle of 16th century the town of Becej had already changed a dozen of feudal masters in the Feudal Hungarian Kingdom.
		In 1551 Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, the famous Turkish leader, conquered it.
		It was Austria, which got power over this territory after the big war between Austria and Turkey in late 17th century, which was ended by a peace treaty concluded in Sremski Karlovci in 1699.
	www.becej.co.yu /english/arhistor.htm (823 words)

	Bosnia's Multicultural Heritage and its Destruction
		Among the most famous of these Bosnian converts was Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, who served as chief minister of the Empire under three Ottoman sultans, among them Süleyman the Magnificent.
		Behind, on your right, is the mosque of Koski Mehmed Pasha, and scattered throughout the town in each neighborhood, were the social institutions I was talking about.
		That is a view of Visegrad on your left with the old bridge, built by Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in 1577.
	www.kakarigi.net /manu/ceip2.htm (6442 words)

	The Saddest Eyes I've Seen: Visegrad, Ivo Andric, and Christoslavism by Michael Sells, 7/3/96
		The story begins with the efforts to build the famous Ottoman Drina river bridge at Visegrad, a bridge commissioned by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, the Bosnian native son who went on to become a minister to the Ottoman sultan and marry Princess Ismahan, grandaughter of Suleiman the Magnificent.
		The story is later said by the narrator to be merely a legend, yet as a symbol it contains the quintessence of Andric's views of race and religion: the essence of the Slavic race is walled up within the encrustations of an alien civilization.
		Though rising to the heights of power and influence, to the point that he could even establish a relative of his as Patriarch of the Serb Church, Sokolovic is viewed by Andric's narrator as hopeless and doomed within the alien racio-religious world he must inhabit.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/postings/saddest_eyes.html (1037 words)

	memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Among the most famous of these Bosnian converts was Mehmed
		Pasha Sokolovic (1505-1579), who served as grand vizier to three sultans, including Suleyman the Magnificent.
		Mehmed Pasha administered a domain that stretched from Yemen to the gates of Vienna, and married Princess
	www.bosnagold.com /memory.html (2474 words)

	Montenegro \| Durmitor and Tara
		Piva is the only Serbian monastery, which was found during Turkish occupation.
		It had taken place in quite calm period, when Serb Mehmed-Pasha Sokolovic was one of Turkish viziers.
		If you are going to Montenegro by car or by bus from Serbia you should make a stop in town Pljevlja.
	www.adriatic-tour.com /en/montenegro_travel_guide/210000398 (442 words)

	Mir svoj dajem vam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By mid 17th century the feudal town had changed about a dozen of rulers, including the two sanctified Serbian despots, Stefan Lazarevic and Djuradj Brankovic.
		The renowned Ottoman military leader and Great Vizier Mehmed-Pasha Sokolovic conquered Becej in 1551 and the town remains under the Turkish rule until 1687.
		Following the Austro-Ottoman war, the Karlovac Peace Treaty and the Great Migration of the Serbs under the Patriarch Arsenije Carnojevic, The Becej area went under the rule of the Austrian Monarchy.
	www.spc.org.yu /mir/gradovi-eng.html (1144 words)

	Le « Pont sur la Drina » en piteux état
		L’ouvrage, créé à la demande de Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, le grand vizir ottoman d’origine serbe, est devenu célèbre dans le monde entier grâce au roman d’Ivo Andric : « le Pont sur la Drina ».
		Il y est dit : « Son altesse, le bienfaiteur Mehmed Pasha, fidèle grand vizir des trois souverains, fit cette grandiose et magnifique construction.
		Animé des intentions les plus pures, le grand vizir construisit ce grand pont sur la Drina par son bienveillant regard.
	www.balkans.eu.org /print_article.php3?id_article=2069 (482 words)

	SFOR Informer Online: around/b001013a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The town of Visegrad grew up on the River Drina on the site of a mediaeval ferry crossing.
		The bridge for which the town has become both famous and infamous was built in the 16th century by Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic.
		The eleven-arched bridge is the main character in The Bridge on the Drina, by the Nobel Prize-winning author, Ivo Andric.
	www.nato.int /sfor/misc/visegrad/b001013a.htm (84 words)

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