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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
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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 {{Ottoman-bio-stub