Iskender Pasha ( ota, اسکندر پاشا, tr, İskender Paşa; 1620) was an
Ottoman commander and the
beylerbey
''Beylerbey'' ( ota, بكلربكی, beylerbeyi, lit=bey of beys, meaning the 'commander of commanders' or 'lord of lords') was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Seljuks ...
of Oczakov (
Ozi). In 1620 Iskender Paşa led an Ottoman army, with Wallachian contingents (13,000-22,000) against the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Crown of the Kingdom of ...
at the
Battle of Cecora, where he was victorious.
[''History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey'' by Ezel Kural Shaw p.19]
/ref> In 1613–1614 he was the beylerbey
''Beylerbey'' ( ota, بكلربكی, beylerbeyi, lit=bey of beys, meaning the 'commander of commanders' or 'lord of lords') was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Anatolian Seljuks ...
of the Bosnia Eyalet.
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17th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Pashas
Ottoman generals
Ottoman governors of Bosnia
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