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Joseph Nasi (Christian baptismal name: Miquez; * 1524 in Portugal; " 1579) were an influential diplomat, banker and a Expert of financial politics at the yard of the osmanischen Sultane I. and Selim II.
It was born into a wealthy marranische family. He was appointed the Mr. von Tiberias in Palestine, in order to settle Jews again there and to animate (by it) the regional economy. It kept the title of one duke from Naxos and the seven islands later. It successfully led a war against Venice, by which the city state lost the islands Cyprus. After Selims death it lost its influence at the yard, kept however its titles and an income up to its death.
Nasi fled together with its aunt, Dona Gracia Nasi, from Portugal before the Inquisition into the Netherlands, where he studied lions at the university, until he had again to flee 1547. It turned to France, later to Italy, before it went to 1554 into Turkey.
When Jussuf Nassy (so a way of writing of its name) arrived at Konstantinopel, he made the lucky decision to attach seeks the later Sultan Selim and him instead of its rival Bajazid to support, whereby he finally got a substantial position with yard. Due to its connections to Europe he became a high-ranking diplomat and Minister with large influence on the osmanische foreign policy. To successes the peace negotiations with Poland, the influencing control belong on the new election the Polish king, and the encouragement of the Netherlands with their rebellion against Spain.
Selim recompenced it for its achievements with the duchy Naxos (1566) and later also the county Andros, which it both of its palace in Belvedere from administered, where it also its own Druckerpresse set up keep.
Joseph Nasi was with a cousin, Dona Reyna, which married daughter of Dona Gracia Nasi, whose family with a part of the fortune from Spain and Portugal could flee. After Josephs Nasis death 1579 expropriated the Sultan the widow to a large extent, up to 90.000 DIN acres, which had been fixed in its Ketuba (marriage contract). With this inheritance Dona Reyna created a newspaper in Hebrew language, only in its residence in Belvedere, later in a suburb Konstantinopels.
Most common the name is Joseph Nasi however in connection with its attempt to settle the city Tiberias again (1561), with which it was first, that undertook practical attempts to restore the Jewish Palestine instead of for the return of the Messiah to wait. It received the rule force over the area from the Sultan and let the city and their walls rebuild, tried, to make by cultivation of and recruitment of craftsmen Tiberias a center of the textile industry organized the resettlement of Jews from the church state to Palestine, failed however finally with the project, when between that Osmani realm and Venice broke war off again.
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