The Ottoman Empire's Lost Century: How the Köprülü Viziers Saved the State — Fexingo History

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The Ottoman Empire's Lost Century: How the Köprülü Viziers Saved the State — Fexingo History

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In the 1650s, the Ottoman Empire was on the verge of collapse. The sultan was a teenage drunkard, the treasury was empty, the navy had been destroyed at Lepanto, and Venice was blockading the Dardanelles. Enter the Köprülü family—a dynasty of grand viziers who ruled from behind the throne for nearly half a century. This episode follows Mehmed Köprülü, a ruthless Albanian-born slave who was appointed grand vizier at age 70 and demanded absolute power as the price for saving the empire. We explore his brutal pacification of Anatolia, his son Fazıl Ahmed's invasion of Crete and war with the Holy League, and the controversial legacy of vizierial rule that both stabilized and weakened the Ottoman state. Along the way, we meet the fanatical Kadızadeli preachers, the Sufi sheikhs they persecuted, and the Jewish false messiah Sabbatai Zevi whose apocalyptic movement threatened Ottoman order. It's a story of crisis, authoritarian reform, and the limits of one family's power to hold an empire together.

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