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In a loyal alliance with Sokollu Mehmed Paşa, she was an excellent ambassodress after Selim's death -- skilled in keeping the peace with enemies and renewing ties of friendship with Iran (1574), Venice (1575) and the Habsburgs (1577).
Sokollu was one of the first to envision a "grand enterprise in the form of a canal across the
When Sokollu fell out favor with powerful courtiers during the decadent reign of Murad III, his friends and proteges were first disgraced and then, one by one, executed.
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Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Spanish explorer (born 1509)
Mehmed Sokollu, Grand Vizier of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II (born 1505)
William Whittingham, English Biblical scholar and religious reformer (born 1524)
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