Mesih | |
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.jpg) Mesih Pasha in a miniature depicting the Siege of Rhodes | |
| 21st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
| In office 1499–1501 | |
| Monarch | Bayezid II |
| Preceded by | İbrahim Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Hadım Ali Pasha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1443 |
| Died | November 1501 (aged 58) |
| Relations | Constantine XI Palaiologos (uncle, uncertain), Hass Murad Pasha (brother) |
| Family | Palaiologos dynasty |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Ottoman Empire |
| Years of service | 1470–1501 |
| Battles/wars | Siege of Negroponte, Siege of Rhodes (1480), Moldavian Campaign (1497–1499), Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–79), Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) |
Mesih Pasha or Misac Pasha[1] (died November 1501) was an Ottoman statesman of Byzantine Greek origin, being a nephew of the last Roman emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos. He served as Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Navy and was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1501.
- ^ Mehmed II the Conqueror and the fall of the Franco-Byzantine Levant to the Ottoman Turk, pg. 267, by Marios Philippides