Viziers

=Viziers =

Viziers, also known as wazirs, were the heads of a large bureaucracy that carried out day-to-day administration. This person was the overall head of the imperial administration. This person often had more "real" power than the sultan. The vizier began to hold more power than the sultan beginning after the fifth century. (Early sultans played a large, active role in the government and military of their government, but later ones left this ruling to the viziers.) It was the Ottoman version of the Abbasid wazir

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