Hadım Hafız Ahmed Pasha (usually referred to as Hafız Ahmed Pasha; died November 3, 1613
) was an
Ottoman statesman who served as the
governor
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of
Egypt
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from 1590 or 1591 to 1594.
Previously, he had served as governor (
beylerbey
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) of
Cyprus
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, and he became a
vizier
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along with his appointment to Egypt.
After Egypt, he became the governor of
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
from 1594 to 1595. His epithet ''Hadım'' means "
eunuch
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The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium ...
" in Turkish.
He commanded the victorious
Ottoman forces during sultan
Mehmed III
Mehmed III (, ''Meḥmed-i sālis''; tr, III. Mehmed; 26 May 1566 – 22 December 1603) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death in 1603. Mehmed was known for ordering the execution of his brothers and leading the army in the L ...
's siege of
Eger
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in 1606.
After a string of various government and military roles,
Ahmed Pasha retired in 1607 or 1608. He died on November 3, 1613.
See also
*
List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
The Ottoman Empire's governors of Egypt from 1517 to 1805 were at various times known by different but synonymous titles, among them ''beylerbey'', viceroy, governor, governor-general, or, more generally, '' wāli''. Furthermore, the Ottoman sul ...
References
* Süreyya, Bey M, Nuri Akbayar, and Seyit A. Kahraman. Sicill-i Osmanî. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Kültür Bakanlığı ile Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı'nın ortak yayınıdır, 1996. Print.
16th-century births
Year of birth unknown
1613 deaths
16th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt
17th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman governors of Egypt
Pashas
Eunuchs from the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman governors of Cyprus
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