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Anabolu (Gr. Nauplia) is a small harbour on the east coast of the Peloponnese (Morea) in the Argolian Gulf, situated on a rocky promontory dominated by Mount Palamidi. A Venetian town from 791/1389, it was an important site in a series of battles between the Ottomans and the Venetians for control of the Morea throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Allegedly founded by Nauplios, one of the sons of Neptune, Nauplia was of little significance in antiquity. A small Byzantine settlement was situated on the rocky plateau of Akronauplia. It was in…

Cigalazade Sinan Paşa (950/1–1014/1544–1606), or Yusuf Sinan b. Abdurrahman (Yūsuf Sinān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān) according to the vakıfname ( waqfnāme, deed of foundation) of 1–10 Zilhicce (Dhūl-Ḥijja) 1012/1–10 May 1604 for his pious foundations in Istanbul (Ankara, Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü Arşivi (VGMA), Defter no. 611:32, 35), more commonly known as “Gazi Sinan Paşa” (or simply “Cağaloğlu”), served the Ottoman state as a grand admiral, commander-in-chief of the army, and grand vizier. He was born a Christian in Mess…