Achmet, grand vizier, loses his Adjacs, officers of the janiffaries. Africa, (the town of), is taken, Aga, a chief or general. Agria, fieges of that town, II. Aiea, wife to Mahomet, fuf- Albaregalis, fieges of that town, II. 20, 252; III. 372. have been made in it in Per- Alehouses, forbidden in Turkey, Aleppo, furrenders to the Turks, Alexandria, furrenders to the Algiers, besieged by Charles V., Ali, is kept from being caliph, Ali Assan, grand vizier, II. 224, 242; is ftrangled, 251. Almamon, caliph, I. lxi. Amafia, taken by the Ottomans, Ambassadors (Turkish) in France, Ambafadors Ambaladors (French) at the Porte excufe themfelves from carrying prefents to the fultan, II. 172; take rank of all other ambaffadors there, 266; fee Andrefel, Daramont, Bonac, Debreves, Cefy, Dechateauneuf, Defalleurs, Deferiolles, Deguillerague, Lahaye, Marcheville, Denoailles, Denointel, Sancy, Villeneuve. Ambafadors (Dutch), fee Col. liere. Ambafadors (Polish), fee Radioufki, Trofki, Zalufki. Ambafadors (Venetian), See Capello, Contarini, Soranzo. Amru, his artifice to get Moavia the califate, I. xxxiii. Amurath I. vainly endeavours to repeople the country which he lays wafte, I. 22, 34; afcends the throne, 24; his affected piety, 27; his cruelty, 30, 31; his death, 35. Amurath II., I. 77; affects to be very pious, 83; has his brothers put to death, 89, and the falfe Muftapha, 87; his conquefts in Afia, 90; from the Greeks, 87, 91; his wives, 96; gains the battle of Varna, 100; abdicates the throne, 104; re-afcends it, 105; raifes the fiege of Croia, 113; gains a battle in the plains of Cafovia, 114; dies, 115. Amurath III. has his brothers put to death, II. 183, 184; his manner of governing, 185, 199; his vices, 198, 213, 216; his death, 216. Amurath IV. proclaimed emperor, III. 1; how he prevents revolutions, 10, 25; his fe. verity, 23, 64; his good adminiftration, 10, 76; goes to war with Perfia, 41, 49, 60; Apollonia, taken by the Turks, Arabians, ftate of their country Arnaud, a knight of Rhodes, rows. Alaky, concubines of the grand feignior who have no particular apartments allotted to them in the haram. Allan, refigns the califate, I. xxxvii. Athens, united to the Ottoman empire, I. 155; Jee Setines. Aubuffon, grand mafter of Rhodes, defends that island against the Turks, I. 172; harbours prince Zizim, 195; delivers him to the pope, 213; treats with the Turks, 197. Aubuffon (vifcount), brother to the grand mafter, I. 172. Axvar, taken by affault, II. 67. Azamoglans [from agiam, foreign, and oglan, a child], children from different countries, brought up in the feraglio to do the menial offices. Azan, dey of Algiers, goes to the fiege of Malta, II. 100. B Baden (the prince of), commands in Hungary, III. 310, 376; gains a battle at Salanaken, IV. 8. Baffo (one of the family of), was mother to Mahomet III., II. 218; her power in the reign of her fon, 222, 230; rebellion which the occafions, 236; is fhut up, 258. Bagdad, its foundation, I. liii; throws off the Perfian yoke, and puts itfelf under the protection of the Turks, I. 359; is befieged, III. 30, 65. Bajazet I., his cruelty, I. 37; makes war in Europe, 37, 41; in Afia, 40, 45; dies, 53. Bajazet II., I. 187, 235; concludes a treaty with the knights of Rhodes, 197; is defeated by the Mammelukes, 209; goes to war with the Venetians, 220; is like to be affafinated, 227; abdicates the throne, 235, 239; is poifoned, 243; his fuperftition, 244. Bajazet (the fon of Solyman I.), revolts against his father, II. 58; who pardons him, 60; attempts to poison his brother Selim, 64; revolts again, 65; efcapes into Perfia, 71, where he is ftrangled, 73. Bajazet (brother to Amurath IV.), is ftrangled, III. 51. Bajazet (the pretended fon of Amurath IV), difputes the throne with Mahomet IV. III. 165; is beheaded, 168.. Baltagi, a freet-porter. Barbaroffa (Aliadin), becomes king of Algiers, I. 363; Solyman I. makes him captain bafhaw, 363; his exploits, 364, 369; II. 13, 18; dies, Beaufort (the duke of), perishes in the fiege of Candia, III. 228. Becri, the drunkard, gets into favor with Amurath IV., III. 27; prevents his having the Chriftians maffacred, 71; dies, 81.3 Beglerbeg, the commander in chief of a province. Belgrade (fieges of), I. 97, 151, 288; III. 373, 390; IV.236; (peace of), by which it is ceded to the Turks, IV. 380. Bendish (Sir), the English ambaffador at the Porte, procures juftice to be done his nation, III. 107; for which he is badly recompenfed, 108. Betlem (Stephen), opposes Ragotski, III. 48. Betlem Gabor, prince of Tranfylvania, II. 307. Birbynia, taken by the Turks, 1.6. Birth, not refpected in Turkey, I. 335. Blanchefort (chevalier), conducts Zizim into France, I. 199; to Rome, 215. Blondel (Mr.), negotiates at the Porte, III. 159. Bogdan, prince of Moldavia, does homage for it to the Turks, J. 348. Bolina, taken by the Turks, 1.35. Bonac (the marquis of), ambaf fador from France to the Porte, IV. 252, 268. Bonneval (count), how looked upon at the Porte, IV. 358, 374, 376. Boftangis, gardeners; who alfo guard the feraglio, I. 324. Boftcaie, prince of Tranfylvania, II. 261; dies, 307. Bouk (chev. John), at the fiege of Rhodes, I. 295. Boudchaz (treaty of), III, 248; declared void, 254. 3 I Bragadin, capitulates in Famagufta, II. 154; is flayed alive contrary to the conditions of the capitulation, 157. Brancovan, prince of Walachia, is put to death with his family, IV. 212. Breves, fee Debreves. Broglio (chevalier), at the fiege of Malta, II. 83. Buda, fiege of that town, I. 333, 345. Bulad, caufes an infurrection in Natolia, II. 270; is ftrangled, 273. Burfa, taken by the Turks, I. 9. C Caaba, the temple of Mecca, I. xviii. Cabugliane (George), I. 331. Caderouffe, at the fiege of Can dia, III. 218. Cadilefker. One of the mufti's lieutenants. Alfo a provoft of the army. Cadis, judges, I. 12. Cadisja, the wife of Mahomet, ' I. ii, vi; dies, xi. Caffa, taken by the Turks, I. 171. Cagnoni (Mr.), the Ruffian mi nifter at the conclufion of the peace of Belgrade, IV. 379. Caimacan, the next officer in command to the grand vizier, and governor of Conftantinople, which town he never leaves. Cairo, taken by the Turks, I. 277; revolts, IV. 293. Caitbeck, betrays the foudan of Egypt, I. 268; is made ba fhaw of Grand Cairo, 281. Calamata, taken by the Venetians, III. 345• Calender, a fort of Mahometan monk, wants to ufurp the throne, I. 336. Calender, Calender, bathaw of Erzerum, revolts, IF. 236; returns to his allegiance, 268; is ftrangled, 270. Caliph, vicar, a name given to Mahomet's fucceffors, 1.xxiv; their fucceffion, ibid; lose their authority, lxvii. Caliphs (Fatimate), I. Ixiii; follow the opinion of the Shiites, ibid; fettle in Egypt, lxiv; are deftroyed, lxxi. Calil, revolts at Aleppo, II. 259; is accused of high treafon, 367; is unsuccessful in Crimea, IFF. 5. See Patrona. Califer, the molla's vicar. Candia (war of), III. 96, 102, 152, 218, 227, 228. Canea, taken by the Turks, III. 105. Canina, retaken by the Turks, FH. 395Cannon, when the Turks began to make use of them, I. 107. Cantacuzenus, makes himfelf maf. ter of the Greek empire, I. 17. Cantimir (Conftantine), is faithful to the Turks, IIF. 345, 353. Cantimir (Demetrius), prince of Moldavia, goes over to the Ruffians, IV. 139. Capello (Martin), deftroys the Barbary corfairs, HI. 69. Capello, the Venetian ambaffador, ufed ill' at the Porte, III. 156. Capi agafi, chief of the black eunuchs, and governor of the pages. Captain bafhaw, the admiral of the fleet. Capitation, a poll-tax paid by the Infidels among the Mahometans, I. xix. Capofwar, Jee Kapofwar. Capiggis, porters, tipftaffs, or bailiffs. Caprara (count), III. 299. Cassovia, furrenders to the Auf trians, III. 343. Caftamona, taken by the Turks, I. 40. Caftelnovo, taken, II. 3; PIF. 356. Caftriot, his bravery at the fiege of Malta, II. gr. See Scanderbeg. Cefalonia, taken by the Vene tians, I. 224. Cerda, Jee Lacerda. Cefarini (Julian), abfolves Ladiflaus, king of Hungary, from his oaths to Amurath I., I. 99. Ceftlin, taken by the Turks, III. 328. Cef (count), ambaffador from France to the Porte, II. 329; Chafis Ali, grand vizier, III. 12, Charles V. (emperor of the Weft), takes Tunis, I. 369; behaves treacherously |