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Abraham Pasha, originally Abraham Eramyan, (Istanbul, 1833 - Istanbul, 1918) was an
Ottoman civil servant and diplomat of
Armenian origin.
The son of an Armenian banker family, he was a close friend of Sultan
Abdülaziz. He spoke fluently Turkish, Arabic and French, and was a prominent figure of
Pera high society in Istanbul.
Financial decline
1883 marked the beginning of Pasha's financial decline, he was financially ruined and unable to repay his debts. Abraham Pasha was forced to surrender his investments on the
Bourse and all his properties to the
Ottoman Bank
The Ottoman Bank ( tr, Osmanlı Bankası), known from 1863 to 1925 as the Imperial Ottoman Bank (french: Banque Impériale Ottomane, ota, بانق عثمانی شاهانه) and correspondingly referred to by its French acronym BIO, was a bank ...
in 1898. His personal properties were sold by the bank in 1919 to a stockbroker named Manouk Manoukian.
http://www.obarsiv.com/english/as-abraham-pasha.html
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References
Pashas
Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
1833 births
1918 deaths
Civil servants from the Ottoman Empire
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