Note 612 — Chapter VI · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS GOVERNMENT
Reading edition
Hammer, Geschichte, ii. 229, iii. 796. The first Reis Effendi whose name is known was Haider Effendi, executed in 1525 on the charge of promoting an uprising of the Janissaries. The office is mentioned in the Kanun-nameh of Mohammed II (Hammer, Staatsverfassung, 90).