Ibrahim Pasha: Grand Vizir of Suleiman the Magnificent

by Hester Donaldson Jenkins

[164] Kemalpashazadeh, op. cit.

[165] The letter is given at the end of the translation of Kemalpashazadeh, p. 145 et seq.

[166] Cf. Sadullah Saïd in Solymannameh, who speaks of Ibrahim Pasha as conqueror of Roumelie, p. 81.

[167] Mejmoua Menshaat el Selatin, ed. by Feridoun Bey, Stambul.

[168] Ser means head, and asker army in Turkish.

[169] Petchevi, op. cit., p. 128.

[170] D’Ohsson, op. cit., vol. iii, p. 422.

[171] Cf. Von Hammer, Wiens erste aufgehobene türkische Belagerung (Pesth, 1829): also Schimmer, and after him Ellesmere, The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks, (London, 1879).

[172] Schimmer, op. cit., p. 16.

[173] “Le dict turc a perdu grand nombre de gens sans toutefois grande perte de ceulx estans au dicte Vienne.” Letter of Ferdinand to Charles V, Gévay, op. cit., vol. i, p. 49. Kupelwieser gives the following figures: 1700 Viennese killed and 100 inhabitants of the suburbs, 4000 Turks killed, op. cit., chap. ii.