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Updated: May 12, 2025
The Jumna Mosque, built by the Sheikh Djihan, is also considered a masterpiece of Mahomedan architecture; it stands upon an enormous platform, to which forty steps lead up, and rises in a truly majestic manner above the surrounding mass of houses. Its symmetry is astonishing.
"It has got one already, got one already I tell you, my son. His name is Maurocordato. Bear it in mind Mau-ro-cor-da-to." "I don't mean to bother my tongue with it at all. As I pronounce it it is Djihan." "Djihan? Who is Djihan?" "Djihan is the Voivode of Wallachia." "Very well, you shall have it so. And what do you want for yourself, my son, eh?"
They put down Choja Dzhanum as the new Kapudan Pasha, Mustafa Beg as the new Minister of the Interior, Musli as the new Janissary Aga; the actual judges and treasurers were banished, the banished judges and treasurers were restored to their places; instead of Maurocordato, who had been educated abroad, they appointed his enemy, Richard Rakovitsa, surnamed Djihan, Voivode of Wallachia; instead of Ghyka they placed the butcher of Pera, Janaki, on the throne of Moldavia; and instead of Mengli Giraj, Khan of the Crimea, Kaplan Giraj, actually present among them, was called to ascend the throne of his ancestors.
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