Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha ( sq, Ahmed Pashë Dukagjini, ota, دوقکین زاده أحمد پاشا, tr, Dukakinoğlu Ahmed Paşa, d. 1515) born Progon Dukagjini was a high-ranking statesman and military commander of the Ottoman Empire in the early 16th century. He hailed from the

Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...

Dukagjini family The Dukagjini are an Albanian feudal noble family who ruled over an area of Northern Albania and Western Kosovo known as the Principality of Dukagjini in the 14th and 15th centuries. They may have been relatives or descendants of the earlier ...

, one of the strongest in pre-Ottoman medieval Albania. By 1503, he had become sanjakbey of Ankara and was married to Gevherşah Hanımsultan, daughter Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Sultan

Bayezid II Bayezid II ( ota, بايزيد ثانى, Bāyezīd-i s̱ānī, 3 December 1447 – 26 May 1512, Turkish: ''II. Bayezid'') was the eldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512. During his reign, ...

) and Guneyi Sinan Pasha, another Ottoman Albanian general, and had with her a son Mehmed Bey and a daughter Fatma Hanım, while his son by his first wife married

Gevhermüluk Sultan Gevhermüluk Sultan, "''gem of the king''", was an ottoman Sultana. She was the daughter of Bayezid II. Early life Alderson notes,referring to Ulucay, that Şehzade Mahmud and Gevhermüluk Sultan were full brother and sister. She married Duk ...

, a daughter of Sultan Bayezid II. Later, he married Hafize Sultan, a daughter of Sultan Selim I. Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha was one of the commanders who supported Prince

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in the Ottoman succession dispute. In 1511, as a result of the large revolt of the

janissaries A Janissary ( ota, یڭیچری, yeŋiçeri, , ) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops and the first modern standing army in Europe. The corps was most likely established under sultan Orhan ( ...

, he became

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 Anatolia. In his new position, he played an instrumental role in securing that Selim would be the next Sultan in 1512 and had an important impact in the military victory against

Şehzade Ahmed ''Şehzade'' ( fa, شهزاده) is the Ottoman form of the Persian title ''Shah#Shahzadeh, Shahzadeh'', and refers to the male Osmanoğlu family, descendants of an Ottoman sovereign in the male line. This title is equivalent to "prince du sang, p ...

, the pretender to the Ottoman throne on April 15, 1513, in Yenişehir. Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha may have been the commander who captured Şehzade Ahmed in the battle. By the summer of 1513, he became joined as a vizier (minister) in the Imperial Council (diwan) and was responsible for the negotiations with

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about possible Ottoman support to Venice against H.R.E. Charles V. In 1514, Selim I began his campaign against the Safavids which culminated in the Battle of Chaldiran. At the beginning of the campaign, Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha was at the head of the vanguard of 20,000 sipahi. His activity in the early stages of the campaign in contemporary sources is unclear, but in the battle of Chaldiran on August 23, 1514, he and the other viziers were at the centre of the battle line next to Selim. Around September 7, when the Ottoman army reached Tabriz, the Safavid capital, Dukaginzade was in the delegation which went ahead of the army in order to accept the city's surrender to Selim. He was

Grand Vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...

of the empire between December 1514 and March 1515. Then he was executed by Selim I, who thought that he was involved in the ongoing revolt of the

. His son, Dukakinzade Mehmed Pasha, was a governor in several regions including Egypt Eyalet. He built the

Al-Adiliyah Mosque __NOTOC__ Al-Adiliyah Mosque ( ar, جَامِع الْعَادِلِيَّة, Jāmiʿ al-ʿAdilīyah, tr, Adliye Camii) or Dukaginzâde Mehmed Pasha mosque was a külliye in Aleppo, located to the southwest of the Citadel, in "Al-Jalloum" distri ...

complex in

Aleppo )), is an adjective which means "white-colored mixed with black". , motto = , image_map = , mapsize = , map_caption = , image_map1 = ...

, Syria where his family was based. The El Adli Dukaginzade are his descendants. In Ottoman sources, ''Dukaginzade'' have been used to refer to him.

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