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Mimar Sinan

1490 - 1588

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Mimar Sinan (Ottoman Turkish: معمار سينان, romanized: Mi'mâr Sinân; Turkish: Mimar Sinan, pronounced [miːˈmaːɾ siˈnan]; c. 1488/1490 – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III. He was responsible for the construction of more than 300 major structures, including the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, the Kanuni Sultan Suleiman Bridge in Büyükçekmece, and the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, as well as other more modest projects such as madrasa's, külliyes, and bridges. His apprentices would later design the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul and the Stari Most bridge in Mostar. The son of a stonemason, he received a technical education and became a military engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mimar Sinan has received more than 1,008,715 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 116 in 2019). Mimar Sinan is the 7th most popular architect (down from 6th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Architect.

Mimar Sinan is most famous for being the chief architect of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul. He was one of the most prolific architects of the Ottoman Empire and designed many mosques, schools, hospitals, and tombs.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 122

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Mimar Sinans by language

Over the past year Mimar Sinan has had the most page views in the with 410,008 views, followed by English (121,464), and Arabic (42,115). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Lombard (300.45%), Guarani (216.62%), and Cornish (123.13%)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Mimar Sinan ranks 7 out of 518. Before him are Antoni Gaudí, Le Corbusier, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Vitruvius, Alvar Aalto, and Imhotep. After him are Donato Bramante, Andrea Palladio, Leon Battista Alberti, Khufu, Albert Speer, and Walter Gropius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1490, Mimar Sinan ranks 1. After him are Albert, Duke of Prussia, Adrian Willaert, Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Olaus Magnus, Vittoria Colonna, Huáscar, Albert of Brandenburg, Florian Geyer, Ebussuud Efendi, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, and Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. Among people deceased in 1588, Mimar Sinan ranks 1. After him are Paolo Veronese, Frederick II of Denmark, Henry I, Duke of Guise, 3rd Dalai Lama, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Qi Jiguang, Henri, Prince of Condé, Bernardino Telesio, Johann Weyer, Abtai Sain Khan, and Alonso Sánchez Coello.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mimar Sinan ranks 45 out of 1,347. Before him are Heraclius (575), Helena (250), Mehmed VI (1861), Epictetus (50), Şehzade Mustafa (1515), and Suleiman II (1642). After him are Mahmud II (1785), Ahmed II (1643), Xenophanes (-570), Şehzade Bayezid (1525), Mehmed V (1844), and Margaret the Virgin (292).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Türkiye

Among architects born in Türkiye, Mimar Sinan ranks 1. After him are Hippodamus of Miletus (-498), Isidore of Miletus (442), Sostratus of Cnidus (-290), Hermogenes of Priene (-200), Kadir Topbaş (1945), Toros Toramanian (1864), and Gülsün Sağlamer (1945).

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