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27-473: The quarter gets its name from Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha ( Turkish : Cağaloğlu Yusuf Sinan Paşa ; c. 1545–1605), an Ottoman admiral and statesman of Genoese descent, as well as a member of the influential Cicala family of Genoa . The original name Cigalaoğlu (meaning "of the Cigala (Cicala) family" , or literally "Cigala-son" as a Turkified surname) eventually turned into Cağaloğlu through

54-707: A Sasanian defeat, and as such, opened up the doors of the Iranian plateau to the invaders. In the early Islamic period, Nahavand flourished as part of the province of Jibal . It first functioned as administrative center of the Mah al-Basra ("Media of the Basrans") district. Its revenues were reportedly used for the payment of the troops from Basra that were stationed in Nahavand. Medieval geographers mention Nahavand as an affluent commercial hub with two Friday mosques . When

81-570: A copy of the dynastic cult inscription of Seleucid ruler Antiochus III the Great ( r.  222–187 BC), which he had created for his wife, Queen Laodice III . The stele, dated to 193 BC, revealed the terminus ante quem of the foundation of the Greek polis of Laodiceia. According to the polymath Abu Hanifa Dinawari , who flourished in the 9th century, in the Parthian period, Nahavand

108-855: A fortress at Nahavand for future campaigns against Safavid Iran . By the Treaty of Constantinople (1590) , the Safavids were forced to cede the city to the Turks. In 1602/3, Nahavand's citizens revolted against the Ottoman occupiers. Coinciding with the Celali revolts in Anatolia , the Safavids recaptured Nahavand and expelled the Ottomans from the city, thus restoring Iranian control. The Safavid governor of Hamadan , Hasan Khan Ustajlu, subsequently destroyed

135-585: A household name in Turkey for having been the equivalent of London's Fleet Street as the city's press center, and where Yusuf Sinan Pasha had constructed a palace and a hamam (Turkish bath), is named after him and carries his name to this day. The bath, known as Cağaloğlu Hamam after the Pasha, was reconstructed in 1741. The song " Sinàn Capudàn Pascià " by the Genoese singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André tells

162-601: The Battle of Djerba by the Ottoman navy in 1560 or 1561, were taken first to Tripoli in North Africa and then to Constantinople . The father was in due course ransomed from captivity and, after living for some time at Beyoğlu ( Pera ), returned to Messina, where he died in 1564. His son, Scipione, was not released, but was inducted into the Ottoman corps of young boys to be trained for imperial service. He converted, as

189-568: The Hungarian campaign of 1596. He tried in vain to relieve the fortress of Hatvan , which fell in September 1596. He was present at the successful Ottoman siege of Eger ( Eğri ) (September–October 1596) and at the Battle of Mezö-Keresztes in October 1596 and took part in the final assault that turned an imminent defeat into a notable triumph for the Ottomans. In reward for his services, he

216-474: The 10th-century Arab traveller Abu Dulaf travelled through Nahavand, he noted "fine remains of the [ancient] Persians". Abu Dulaf also wrote that during the reign of Caliph al-Ma'mun (813–833), a treasure chamber had been found, containing two gold caskets. In the course of the subsequent centuries, only few events in Nahavand were recorded. The Persian vizier of the Seljuk Empire , Nizam al-Mulk ,

243-610: The Ottoman fort. In the wake of the collapse of the Safavids in 1722, the Turks captured Nahavand once more. In 1730, they were ousted by Nader-Qoli Beg (later known as Nader Shah ; r.   1736–1747). Nader's death in 1747 led to instability. Over the next few years, Nahavand was exploited by local Bakhtiari chiefs. In c.  1752 , Karim Khan Zand defeated the Bakhtiari chieftain Ali Mardan Khan Bakhtiari at Nahavand. The local language of

270-566: The Vizierate after just over a month in office. He was born as Scipione Cicala in Genoa or Messina around 1545, as a member of the aristocratic Genoese family of Cicala . His younger brother was Carlo Cigala . His father, a Viscount (di Cicala), was, according to Stephan Gerlach , a corsair in the service of Spain, while his mother is said to have been a Turk from Castelnuovo ( Herceg Novi today). The Visconte and his son, captured at

297-633: The city is the Nahavandi sub-dialect of the northern dialect of the Luri language . This dialect is one of the closest dialects to the Middle Persian language, and is occasionally considered a distinct language. Southern Kurdish is also spoken in Nahavand. At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 72,218 in 19,419 households. The following census in 2011 counted 75,445 people in 22,672 households. The 2016 census measured

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324-516: The conclusion that Nahavand and its environs have been inhabited since prehistoric times. It showed that the site of Tepe Giyan, which lies c.  10 kilometers southeast of Nahavand, was occupied from at least 5,000 BC to c.  1,000 BC. During the Achaemenid period (550–330 BC), Nahavand was located in the southernmost part of Media , on the fertile Nisaean plain . The ancient geographer and historian Strabo wrote that it

351-520: The course of centuries. 41°00′46″N 28°58′31″E  /  41.01278°N 28.97528°E  / 41.01278; 28.97528 This geographical article about a location in Istanbul Province , Turkey is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha (also known as Cağaloğlu Yusuf Sinan Pasha ; c. 1545–1605), his epithet meaning "son of Cicala",

378-574: The fortress of Van and thence in the direction of Diyarbekir . He died in the course of this retreat in December 1605. He was ancestor of İlhan İrem , who is a famous Turkish pop singer. He married two great-granddaughters of Sultan Suleiman I. The two girl were daughters of Ayşe Hümaşah Sultan , the daughter of Mihrimah Sultan , the only daughter of Sultan Suleiman I , birth by his legal wife Hürrem Sultan . The Cağaloğlu quarter in Istanbul ,

405-519: The last years of the war, bringing Nihavand and Hamadan under Ottoman control. After the peace of 1590, he was made governor of Erzurum , and in 1591, became Kapudan Pasha or Grand Admiral of the Ottoman fleet . He held this office until 1595. During the third Grand Vizierate (1593–1595) of Koca Sinan Pasha he was promoted to Fourth Vizier. At that time, the Ottomans had been at war with Austria since 1593. Cağaloğlu Yusuf Sinan Pasha, by then appointed Third Vizier, accompanied Sultan Mehmed III on

432-582: The population of the city as 76,162 people in 23,947 households. Nahavand is situated in the west of Iran , in the northern part of the Zagros region. It lies c.  90 kilometers south of Hamadan , from which it is separated by the massif of the Alvand subrange. This massif grants Nahavand and its hinterlands an abundant water supply. Historically, Nahavand was located on a route that led from central Iraq through Kermanshah to northern Iran, and

459-522: The story of Sinan Pasha. It is completely in Genoese dialect and is part of the album Crêuza de mä . Nihavand Nahavand ( Persian : نهاوند ) is a city in the Central District of Nahavand County , Hamadan province, Iran , serving as capital of both the county and the district. It is south of the city of Hamadan , west of Malayer and northwest of Borujerd . Inhabited continuously since prehistoric times , Nahavand

486-406: Was beylerbey (governor-general) of Van in 1583, and assumed command, in the same year, of the great fortress of Erivan , being raised to the rank of vizier at the same time. He also played a prominent role, once more as Beylerley of Van, in the campaign of 1585 against Tabriz . As Beylerbey of Bayazıt , an appointment which he received in 1586, he fought with success in western Persia during

513-472: Was "(re-)founded" by Achaemenid King Xerxes the Great ( r.  486–465 BC). It lay c.  96 kilometers from Ecbatana (modern-day Hamadan), on the trunk road from Babylonia through Media to Bactria . In the Seleucid period, Nahavand was turned into a Greek polis with magistrates and a Seleucid governor. In the 20th century, a stone stele was found near Nahavand. The stele bore

540-473: Was Beylerbey of Damascus from December 1597 to January 1598. In May 1599, he was made Kapudan Pasha for the second time. In 1604, he assumed command of the eastern front, where a new war between the Ottomans and the Persians had broken out in the preceding year. His campaign of 1605 was unsuccessful, the forces he led towards Tabriz suffering defeat near the shore of Lake Urmia . Cağaloğlu had to withdraw to

567-672: Was an Ottoman Italian statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier for forty days between 27 October to 5 December 1596, during the reign of Mehmed III . He was also a Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy ) as well as a military general. He was one of the most capable statesmen of the Ottoman Classical Age, having contributed to the eastwards expansion of the empire at the expense of Persia and successfully defended Ottoman Hungary from Habsburg invasion. However, because of court intricacies, he resigned from

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594-512: Was assassinated in 1092 near Nahavand. According to the historian and geographer Hamdallah Mustawfi , who flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries, Nahavand was a town of medium size surrounded by fertile fields where corn, cotton and fruits were grown. Mustawfi added that its inhabitants were mainly Twelver Shia Kurds . In 1589, during the Ottoman-Safavid War of 1578–1590 , Ottoman general Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha built

621-1385: Was bestowed upon the House of Karen in the Sasanian period. During the Muslim conquest of Persia , it was the site of the famous Battle of Nahavand . The name Nahāvand is probably ultimately derived from Old Persian *Niθāvanta- , related to the Old Persian name Nisāya , itself derived from the prefix ni- , meaning "down" and a second element which is related to Avestan si or say , meaning "to lie down". It has been spelled differently in different books and sources: Nahavand , Nahavend , Nahawand , Nahaavand , Nihavand , Nehavand , Nihavend , or Nehavend , formerly called Mah-Nahavand , and in antiquity Laodicea ( Greek : Λαοδίκεια ; Arabic Ladhiqiyya ), also transliterated Laodiceia and Laodikeia , Laodicea in Media , Laodicea in Persis , Antiochia in Persis , Antiochia of Chosroes ( Greek : Αντιόχεια του Χοσρόη ), Antiochia in Media ( Greek : Αντιόχεια της Μηδίας ), Nemavand and Niphaunda . Excavations conducted in 1931/2 at Tepe Giyan by Georges Contenau and Roman Ghirshman led to

648-536: Was made Grand Vizier, but the discontent arising from the measures which he used in an effort to restore discipline amongst the Ottoman forces, the troubles which followed his intervention in the affairs of the Crimean Tatars , and the existence at court of powerful influences eager to restore Damat İbrahim Pasha to the Grand Vizierate, brought about his deposition from this office after 40 days. He

675-592: Was required, to Islam and was trained in the Imperial palace, rising to the rank of silahtar . He married two great-granddaughters of Suleiman I and found himself assured of wealth, high office and protection at the Porte. He became Agha of the Janissaries in 1575 and retained this office until 1578. During the next phase of his career he saw much active service in the long Ottoman–Persian war of 1578–1590 . He

702-519: Was the seat of the Parthian prince Artabanus, who later reigned as Artabanus I of Parthia ( r.  127–124/3 BC). During the Sasanian period, the district of Nahavand was bestowed upon the House of Karen . There was also a fire temple in the city. In 642, during the Arab conquest of Iran , a famous battle was fought at Nahavand. With heavy losses on both sides, it eventually resulted in

729-520: Was therefore often crossed by armies. Another historic road, coming from Kermanshah, leads towards Isfahan in central Iran and avoids the Alvand massif. Nahavand also lies on the branch of the Gamasab river which comes from the southeast from the vicinity of Borujerd ; from Nahavand the Gamasab river flows westwards to Mount Behistun . Given Nahavand's location, it was the site of several battles, and

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