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YAHYAPAÇA-OGLU MEHMED PASHA’S EVKAF IN BELGRADE
YAHYAPAÇA-OGLU MEHMED PASHA’S EVKAF IN BELGRADE

Author(s): Aleksandar Fotić
Subject(s): Cultural history, Architecture, Rural and urban sociology, 16th Century, 17th Century, The Ottoman Empire
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Yahyapaša-oglu Mehmed Pasha; Vakif (Endowment); Belgrade; Ottoman Empire; 16th-17th centuries;

Summary/Abstract: It was to Yahyapaša-oglu Mehmed Pasha, sancakbeyi of Semendire (1527-1534, 1536-1543, 1548-1550?) andpa%a of Buda (1543-1548), that Ottoman Belgrade owed the erection of one of the biggest and most versatile vakifs, which strongly affected the growth of the city’s new urban structure. Mehmed Pasha’s evkaf in Belgrade consisted of a mosque, a mekteb, a medrese, an ‘imaret, a karvansaray, a sebil, a scheme, and Mehmed Pasha’s türbe (mausoleum), all constituting a well-structured architectural complex. Beyond the complex, it also included a musalla, a tekke, and shops and lots in the market place. By 1548 most of the structures had already been built, and they lasted till 1688. The state assisted in providing for the evkaf by granting Mehmed Pasha the full ownership (mülk) of a large number of vacant lots in the city, a few nearby villages, and subsequently, some estates in the sancak of Pozega. The study of the composition and functioning of Mehmed Pasha’s Belgrade evkaf indeed confirms the assumptions about a well thought out state policy as regards the development of the urban structure of major Ottoman communities.

  • Issue Year: 54/2001
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 437-452
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English