Note 102 — Chapter II · THE OTTOMAN RULING INSTITUTION: AS A SLAVE-FAMILY

A study of the nationality of the high officials of the sixteenth century gives evidence of this. For example, Ibrahim was an Albanian (Junis Bey, below, p. 265); Rustem Pasha was a Croat (Hammer, Geschichte, iii. 268); Ferhad was a Hungarian (ibid. 365); the grand vizier Ali, whom Busbecq (Life and Letters, i. 157) calls “a thorough gentleman,” was a Dalmatian; Ayas was an Albanian, and Kassim a Croat (Junis Bey, p. 265); etc. For many other examples, see Jorga, iii. 167-189.