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Matrakçı Nasuh

1480 - 1564

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Nasuh bin Karagöz bin Abdullah el-Visokavi el-Bosnavî, commonly known as Matrakçı Nasuh (Turkish pronunciation: [matɾakˈtʃɯ naˈsuh]; Serbo-Croatian: Matrakčija Nasuh Visočak) for his competence in the combat sport of Matrak which was invented by himself, (also known as Nasuh el-Silâhî, Nasuh the Swordsman, because of his talent with weapons; 1480 – c. 1564) was a 16th-century Ottoman Bosnian statesman of the Ottoman Empire, polymath, mathematician, philosopher, teacher, historian, geographer, cartographer, swordmaster, navigator, inventor, painter, farmer, and miniaturist. He was brought to Istanbul after being recruited by Ottoman scouts in Rumelia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Matrakçı Nasuh has received more than 200,609 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Matrakçı Nasuh is the 99th most popular historian, the 44th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Historian.

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  • 200k

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  • 59.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Matrakçı Nasuh ranks 99 out of 561. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Vasily Bartold, Tyrannius Rufinus, Shoqan Walikhanov, Christoph Cellarius, and Eunapius. After him are Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Cangjie, Shlomo Sand, Alois Riegl, Sextus Julius Africanus, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Matrakçı Nasuh ranks 19. Before him are Dosso Dossi, Gazi Husrev-beg, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Marcantonio Raimondi, Salaì, and Jean Clouet. After him are Juan de Grijalva, Stańczyk, Charlotte of Albret, Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire, Sebastián de Belalcázar, and Herri met de Bles. Among people deceased in 1564, Matrakçı Nasuh ranks 5. Before him are Michelangelo, John Calvin, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Andreas Vesalius. After him are Pierre Belon, Rani Durgavati, Sabina of Bavaria, Charles Estienne, Giovanni da Udine, Theodore Bibliander, and Martim Afonso de Sousa.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Matrakçı Nasuh ranks 44 out of 375. Before him are Zdravko Čolić (1951), Jazzar Pasha (1722), Dino Merlin (1962), Momčilo Krajišnik (1945), Silvana Armenulić (1939), and Mate Boban (1940). After him are Bakir Izetbegović (1956), Miroslav Filipović (1915), Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1404), Branko Ćopić (1915), Željko Bebek (1945), and Lepa Radić (1925).

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Among HISTORIANS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among historians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Matrakçı Nasuh ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Ćorović (1885).

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