MEHMED-PAŠA SOKOLOVIĆ AND ORTHODOX PART OF HIS FAMILY IN THE SERBIAN PATRIARCHATE OF PEĆ

This paper deals with Ottoman great Vizier Mehmed-Pasha Sokolovic and the branch of his family in the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. Namely, a lot of scientific and other content dealt with the mentioned issues. There are different viewpoints, and controversies, which additionally reach out to researchers for new research and knowledge, in order to see this issue as objective as possible and to give it a clearer historical image. The author, on the basis of available literature, treats and examines this issue and gives his view on the role of Mehmed-pasha Sokolovic in the Ottoman Empire, with a special accent on his attitude towards the Orthodox branch of his family in the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć.