Sokollu, Mehmed Pasa
Ottoman grand vizier (chief minister) from June 1565, under the sultans S�leyman the Magnificent and Selim II, and perhaps the real ruler of the empire until the death of Selim in 1574. During his tenure, a war was fought with Venice (1570 - 73), in which the Ottoman navy was defeated in the famous Battle of Lepanto (Oct. 7, 1571), but
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