Damat Ibrahim Pasha

He was born in 1517 near the town of Novi Sheher, located near the city of Maglay. From Novi Sheher, he received his nickname Novosehirliya ^[3] .

Ibrahim Pasha owed his career to the Ottoman court to Sokoll Mehmed Pasha . In 1581, shortly after the death of Mehmed Pasha, Ibrahim Pasha married Aisha, the daughter of Murad III , who was then in power, and was appointed Beylerbey of Egypt . Due to the death of his patrons and remoteness from the capital, his influence at the court of Murad III weakened.

In 1585, Ibrahim Pasha crushed the Druze rebellion in Lebanon ^[4] .

He returned to the court in the reign of Mehmed III , being appointed for the first time the great vizier in 1596. In June of that year, the Ottoman army marched against the Habsburgs. The aim of the war was to capture the Eger fortress, located in the northeast of Budapest, between Austria and Transylvania ^[5] . The campaign ended successfully, and Ibrahim Pasha received the title “Conqueror of Eger” from the Sultan. The sultan, who, contrary to the tradition of his last predecessors, led the Ottoman army, left the command of Ibrahim Pasha after the Battle of Kerestets and returned to Istanbul ^[6] . Ibrahim Pasha himself was reluctant to assume this role. He was not a supporter of active hostilities against the Austrians, which twice led to his resignation from the post of great vizier. in 1596 and 1597.

Ibrahim Pasha was again appointed Grand Vizier in 1599, provided that he would launch a military campaign against Austria . He began his campaign, portraying a threat to Vienna , heading towards Esztergom (conquered by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1543 and lost by the Ottomans in 1595), but failed to take the city and the troops of Ibrahim Pasha spent the winter in Belgrade . He then continued the military campaign against the Habsburgs in a southerly direction, besieging the castle of Caniz . Turkish slaves in the castle blew up the powder cellars, which greatly damaged its walls. But the fortress did not fall, and an army of 20,000 soldiers came under the command of Philip Emmanuel de Merker to help the besieged. The Ottoman army defeated both armies and the castle surrendered. Tiryaki Hassan Pasha was appointed the bailerbay of the newly conquered city.

Caniza became the center of the start of new Ottoman attacks in Central Europe. In September 1601, an attempt by the large Austrian army to return the castle was repulsed by the governor Tiryaki Hassan Pasha. Damat Ibrahim Pasha died the same year. Esztergom was again occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1605.