| Thus empowered, they came to play a vital role in the new polity and culture, serving as viziers and military commanders. |
| Hence many Ottoman viziers were of non-Turkish ethnic origin, including Greeks, Albanians, and even Italians. |
| Coordination between the different viziers and communication between the sovereign and the vizierates required a new official. |
| He patronized various scholars, Sufis, qadis, viziers and other functionaries in order to consolidate his rule. |
| State administration and foreign affairs were largely left to viziers such as Ay and Horemheb, while the king tended to the expansion of his religion and social systems. |
