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Tyrkisk
vezir fra 1689, broder til sultan Ahmed
II. Dræbt under slaget ved Slankamen.
Köprülü
(köprülü´) (KEY) , family of humble Albanian origin,
several members of which served as grand vizier (chief executive officer)
in the Ottoman Empire. The name is also spelled Kiuprili, Koprili, and
Kuprili. Mehmed Köprülü, 1583–1661, became grand vizier
of Muhammad IV in 1656. He reorganized the Ottoman fleet, conquered (1658)
Transylvania, restored internal order (by executing dissidents), reformed
the finances, and built forts along the Don and Dnieper rivers. During
his vizierate the Ottoman Empire regained some of its former prestige
and vitality. He was succeeded as vizier by his son Ahmed Köprülü,
1635–76. An able statesman and soldier, he took (1669) the last Venetian
stronghold in Crete, but he was severely defeated (1664) by Montecucculi
at Szentgotthárd in Hungary and suffered reverses in his campaigns
against John III of Poland. Ahmed
was succeeded as vizier by Kara Mustafa, his brother-in-law. Ahmed’s brother,
Mustafa Köprülü, 1637–91, became vizier in 1689,
at a time when the Austrians and their allies were advancing victoriously
into the Ottoman Empire. He continued his predecessors’ administrative
and fiscal reforms and improved the status of the Christian subjects.
He drove the Austrians from Serbia but was killed in the battle of Slankamen.
His cousin, Hüseyin Köprülü, d. 1702, became vizier
after the Turkish defeat at Senta in 1697. Recognizing the exhaustion
of Turkey, he negotiated a humiliating peace (see Karlowitz, Treaty of).
He too was a reformer and patronized the arts and letters. Mustafa Köprülü’s
son, Numan Köprülü, d.1719, was vizier in 1710–11. Another
son, Abdullah Köprülü, d. 1735, was acting vizier from
1723 until his death.
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