Vizier

How it is used

The rank's powers differed between states and periods; grand vizier names a chief minister.

Example sentences

1. The vizier presented provincial complaints to the ruler.

   The minister mediates between provincial affairs and the court.

2. The historian traced the vizier's influence through appointment records.

   Appointments can reveal the practical reach of the office.

Common collocations

• appoint a vizier
• grand vizier

Related terms

• Ottoman EmpireThe state founded in north-western Anatolia around 1300 by the dynasty of Osman, which grew into an empire across south-eastern Europe, western Asia and North Africa and lasted until 1922.
• reignThe period during which a king, queen, emperor or sultan rules; as a verb, to rule as a monarch.

More terms: Empires, States and Rulers

• empire
• dynasty
• colonialism
• monarchy
• sovereignty
• colony
• city-state
• abdicate
• decline
• Byzantine Empire
• imperialism
• decolonization