Mahmud Pasha (died 1567) was an
Ottoman statesman from
Bosnia who served as the Ottoman governor of
Yemen Eyalet
ota, ایالت یمن
, common_name = Yemen Eyalet
, subdivision = Eyalet
, nation = the Ottoman Empire
, year_start = 1517
, year_end = 1872
, life_span = 1517– ...
from 1561 to 1565 until being deposed, and
of Egypt Eyalet
The Eyalet of Egypt (, ) operated as an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867. It originated as a result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and the a ...
from 1566 until his assassination by gunfire in 1567.
He was described as an "unscrupulous," corrupt, but wealthy official with "the riches of the al-Nazaris in his possession."
He reportedly disliked his successor for the governorship of Yemen,
Ridwan Pasha
Riḍwān ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿīn Pasha ( Turkish transliteration: ''Ridvan Pasha''; died 2 April 1585) was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman. He served terms as governor of Gaza in the early 1560s and in 1570–1573, Yemen in 1564/ ...
, and purposefully made his job harder with actions he took just before his removal from office.
As the governor of Egypt, Mahmud Pasha had the
Al-Mahmoudia Mosque built in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...
, which still stands today.
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 s ...
References
Ottoman governors of Egypt
16th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt
Pashas
1567 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Ottoman governors of Yemen
Assassinated people from the Ottoman Empire
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