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Zagan Pasha

1450 - 1464

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Zaganos or Zagan Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: زاغنوس پاشا, Turkish: Zağanos Paşa, Albanian: Zognush Pasha; c. 1426 – 1469) was an Albanian Ottoman military commander, with the titles and ranks of kapudan pasha and the highest military rank, grand vizier, during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror". Originally a Christian, who was conscripted and converted through the devşirme system, he became a Muslim and rose through the ranks of the janissaries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zagan Pasha has received more than 272,129 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Zagan Pasha is the 5,404th most popular politician (down from 3,904th in 2019).

Zagan Pasha was a military commander in the Ottoman Empire. He is most famous for leading the Ottoman army to victory in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Zagan Pasha ranks 5,404 out of 15,577Before him are Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus, Eduardo Duhalde, Suintila, Lennart Bernadotte, Emperor Go-Fushimi, and Emperor Seiwa. After him are Ulrich von Hassell, Werner Best, Magnus IV of Norway, Siraj ud-Daulah, Kalākaua, and Árpád Göncz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1450, Zagan Pasha ranks 19Before him are Diogo Dias, Pêro da Covilhã, Ravidas, Veit Stoss, Heinrich Isaac, and Gedik Ahmed Pasha. After him are Francesco Francia, Juan de Flandes, Gaspar Corte-Real, Ibrahim Lodi, John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, and Pedro Berruguete. Among people deceased in 1464, Zagan Pasha ranks 8Before him are Pope Pius II, Rogier van der Weyden, Cosimo de' Medici, Emperor Yingzong of Ming, Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, and Blanche II of Navarre. After him are Bernardo Rossellino, Catherine of Poděbrady, Desiderio da Settignano, Bartolomeo Bon, John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset.

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