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Gedik Ahmed Pasha

1450 - 1482

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Gedik Ahmed Pasha (Serbian: Гедик Ахмед-паша; died 18 November 1482) was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who served as Grand Vizier and Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II. Very little was known about Gedik Ahmed Pasha in primary sources until late in historiography. Serbia and Albania had both been proposed as geographical regions for his birthplace and Mükrimin Halil Yinanç had even claimed that he was descended from the Byzantine Greek Palaiologos dynasty based on unnamed Western sources Yinanç claimed to have access to. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gedik Ahmed Pasha has received more than 126,675 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gedik Ahmed Pasha is the 5,207th most popular politician (up from 5,298th in 2019).

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gedik Ahmed Pasha ranks 5,207 out of 19,576. Before her are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Galswintha, Kersti Kaljulaid, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, and Pan Geng. After her are Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Abdelkader Bensalah, Mahaut, Countess of Artois, Tai Wu, Kiril, Prince of Preslav, and Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Gedik Ahmed Pasha ranks 18. Before her are Marko Marulić, Gerard David, Veit Stoss, Ravidas, Zagan Pasha, and Heinrich Isaac. After her are Juan de Flandes, Francesco Francia, Ibrahim Lodi, Pêro da Covilhã, Basarab II of Wallachia, and Pedro Berruguete. Among people deceased in 1482, Gedik Ahmed Pasha ranks 8. Before her are Hugo van der Goes, Margaret of Anjou, Luca della Robbia, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Federico da Montefeltro, and Philibert I, Duke of Savoy. After her are Lucrezia Tornabuoni, William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Louis of Cyprus, Giovanni di Paolo, William the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Mechthild of the Palatinate.

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