KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA

KARA MUSTAPHA BASSA TURCARUM IMPERIORIS MINISTER PRIMARIUS

c. 1700

Engraving. 17 x 12 cm.

MERZİFONLU KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA (c. 1634-1683) Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier to Sultan Mehmet IV (1642-1693)…He led the Ottomans to their catastrophic defeat against the Polish army under John III Sobieski (1674-1696) at the battle of Vienna in 1683…Mehmet had him executed, starngled with a silk cord…