Ahmed Pasha (Aidin Vilayet Governor)
Ahmad Pasha or Ahmed Pasha or Ahmet Pasha may refer to: * Gedik Ahmed Pasha (died 1482), Ottoman grand vizier (1474–77) * Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha (died 1515), Ottoman grand vizier (1514–15) * Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha (1459–1517), Ottoman grand vizier (various times 1497–1516) * Hain Ahmed Pasha (died 1524), Ottoman governor of Egypt (1523–24) who declared himself Sultan of Egypt * Kara Ahmed Pasha (died 1555), Ottoman grand vizier (1553–55) * Ahmed-paša Dugalić (fl. 1598–1605), Ottoman governor of Bosnia, Belgrade and Temeşvar * Ahmad Pasha ibn Ridwan (died 1607), Ottoman governor of Damascus and Gaza * Hadım Hafız Ahmed Pasha (died 1613), Ottoman governor of Egypt (1590–94) * Hafız Ahmed Pasha (1564–1632), Ottoman grand vizier (1625–26, 1631–32) * Bakırcı Ahmed Pasha (died 1635/1636), Ottoman governor of Egypt (1633–35) * Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha (1635–1676), Ottoman grand vizier (1661–76) * Claude Alexandre de Bonneval (1675–1747) ...
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Gedik Ahmed Pasha
Gedik Ahmed Pasha (; died 18 November 1482) was an Ottoman statesman and admiral who served as Grand Vizier and Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II. Very little was known about Gedik Ahmed Pasha in primary sources until late in historiography. Serbia and Albania had both been proposed as geographical regions for his birthplace and Mükrimin Halil Yinanç had even claimed that he was descended from the Byzantine Greek Palaiologos dynasty based on unnamed Western sources Yinanç claimed to have access to. Later research in the Ottoman archives of Vranje (southeastern Serbia) by Aleksandar Stojanovski established that Gedik Ahmed Pasha was a member of the local Serbian feudal families of the area and was born in the village Punoševce. Leading the Ottoman Army, he defeated the last Anatolian beylik (principality) resisting Ottoman expansion in the region, the Karamanids. The Karamanids had been the strongest prin ...
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