Abdurrahman Nurettin

Pasha Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, gener ...

, also known as Nurettin Pasha (1833–1912) was an Ottoman

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. He was the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 2 May 1882 to 12 July 1882.Kastamonu Valisi Abdurrahman Nureddin Paşa' , Abdurrahmanpaşa Lisesi web site

Biography

Born in

Kütahya Kütahya () (historically, Cotyaeum or Kotyaion, Ancient Greek, Greek: Κοτύαιον) is a city in western Turkey which lies on the Porsuk River, Porsuk river, at 969 metres above sea level. It is inhabited by some 578,640 people (2022 estimate) ...

in 1833, Abdurrahman was a descendant of the

Germiyanids The Germiyanids ( tr, Germiyanoğulları Beyliği or ''Germiyan Beyliği'') was a prominent Anatolian beylik established by the Oghuz Turkish tribes (probably the Afshar tribe) after the decline of Sultanate of Rûm. However, while the beyl ...

, who flourished in that area after the decline and eventual fall of the

Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm fa, سلجوقیان روم () , status = , government_type = Hereditary monarchyTriarchy (1249–1254)Diarchy (1257–1262) , year_start = 1077 , year_end = 1308 , p1 = By ...

. His father, Haji Ali Pasha, was one of the Ottoman governors who died on 25 May 1874 while serving as the governor of

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. The son of Abdurrahman Pasha married to Naile Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid. The son-in-law of Abdurrahman Pasha was Turkish musicologist Hüseyin Sadeddin Arel, and his nephew was

Münir Nurettin Selçuk Münir Nurettin Selçuk (1900 or 1901 – April 27, 1981) was a Turkish classical musician and tenor singer. Biography He was born in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire in 1900 or 1901. His uncle was Grand Vizier of ...

, the Turkish classical musician.

References

19th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 1833 births 1912 deaths Ottoman governors of Aidin People from Kütahya Ottoman governors of Baghdad {{Ottoman-bio-stub