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A trope in fiction both from and about the Ottoman Empire is the conniving, adulating "Grand Vizier." What exactly was a vizier (or Grand Vizier), and why did the role come to be negatively stereotyped in fiction?

by /u/TheJucheisLoose in /r/AskHistorians

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