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Gürcü Mehmed Pasha

Ottoman grand vizier (d. 1666)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ1584080 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gürcü Mehmed Pasha (died 1665, Buda) was an Ottoman statesman. He was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 27 September 1651 and 20 June 1652.

He was the former slave of Koca Sinan Pasha, a previous, prominent grand vizier.

Editorial summary

“Gürcü Mehmed Pasha” enters the record as ottoman grand vizier (d. 1666). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gürcü, Mehmed and Pasha can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1665, 1651, 1652—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1556-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gürcü, Mehmed and Pasha.
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“Gürcü Mehmed Pasha” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gürcü, Mehmed and Pasha provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1584080. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1665, 1651 and 1652.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gürcü Mehmed Pasha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.