Posted on 10/16/2022 10:49:43 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1730, the Ottoman Grand Vizier Nevsehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha was deposed by strangulation.
Ibrahim Pasha (English Wikipedia entry | Turkish)* was the minister of Sultan Ahmed III; more than that, he was the sultan’s son-in-law.**
It was the Lâle Devri in Istanbul, whose great families thrilled to the voluptuary pleasures of tulips — a consumption conspicuous not only of wealth but of European affectation.†
Ibrahim himself was a great connoisseur of the fashionable bulb that defines his 1718-1730 administration as the “Tulip Period”. Arts and culture in the empire — there’s no other way to say it — flowered....
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Interesting story. According to the article this sultan’s fascination with tulips was about a hundred years after the huge tulip mania in Holland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Thank you for posting. I enjoy these tidbits of history.
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