Suluc Mehmed Pasha, better known in Europe as Mohammed Sirocco or Mehmed Siroco,[1][2] was the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt and Governor of Alexandria, in the mid 16th century.[3] Suluc Mehmed Pasha was appointed admiral in command of the Turkish right at the Battle of Lepanto (1571).[4] Fighting the Christian left, he was wounded and killed.[5]
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- ↑ Capponi, Niccolò (2007). Victory of the West: the great Christian-Muslim clash at the Battle of Lepanto. Cambridge.
- ↑ Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1984). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Volume 161. Philadelphia.
- ↑ Byfield, Ted (2010). A Century of Giants, A.D. 1500 to 1600. Edmonton.
- ↑ Beach, Chandler Belden (1895). The student's cyclopaedia: Volume 1. Chicago and Philadelphia.
- ↑ Feist, Aubrey (1971). The lion of St. Mark: Venice: the story of a city from Attila to Napoleon. Indianapolis.
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