Nevesinli Salih

Pasha Pasha, Pacha or Paşa ( ota, پاشا; tr, paşa; sq, Pashë; ar, باشا), in older works sometimes anglicized as bashaw, was a higher rank in the Ottoman political and military system, typically granted to governors, generals, dignita ...

( sh, Salih-paša Nevesinjac; , died 16 September 1647) was an Ottoman civil servant and

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Early years

Salih Pasha was from

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Sanjak of Herzegovina The Sanjak of Herzegovina ( tr, Hersek Sancağı; sh, Hercegovački sandžak) was an Ottoman administrative unit established in 1470. The seat was in Foča until 1572 when it was moved to Taşlıca (Pljevlja). The sanjak was initially part of ...

Bosnia Eyalet The Eyalet of Bosnia ( ota, ایالت بوسنه ,Eyālet-i Bōsnâ; By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters ; sh, Bosanski pašaluk), was an eyalet (administrative division, also known as a ''beylerbeylik'') of the Ottoman Empire, mostly based o ...

, and was sent to

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at a young age. During the reign of Sultan

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(r. 1623–1640), he was a civil servant specialized in treasury. He served in some other posts as well, and finally during the reign of Sultan

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(r. 1640–1648) in 1644, he was appointed

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, the highest position in the treasury. In 1645, grand vizier Sultanzade Mehmet Pasha was dismissed from the post. The first choice of the sultan for the post was Yusuf Pasha. However, Yusuf Pasha did not accept, and Salih Pasha was appointed as grand vizier on 17 December 1645.Ayhan Buz: ''Osmanlı Sadrazamları'',Neden Kitap,İstanbul, 2009 pp.100-101

Grand Vizierate

The most important issue in 1646 was the war in

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, an important island in the

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, which was a dependency of

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in the first half of the 17th century (see

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). Salih Pasha sent Sultanzade Mehmet Pasha, his predecessor, to Crete as the general commander ( tr, serdar). When Mehmet Pasha died soon afterwards,

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was appointed the next commander. He was successful in capturing

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. Another mainstream issue at the time was the disobedience of the

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(also known as Samegrelo, in western

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) principality, which was a

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of the Ottoman Empire. Salih Pasha was able to maintain order there.Joseph von Hammer:''Osmanlı Tarihi'' cilt II (condensation: Abdülkadir Karahan), Milliyet yayınları, İstanbul. p 237-238

Death

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n orientalist

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, Sultan Ibrahim, an unbalanced monarch, had given strict orders to ban any horse carts in

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, the capital. Seeing that his order was violated, he ordered the execution of his grand vizier, Salih Pasha. During a divan meeting, Salih Pasha was arrested and executed on 16 September 1647.

References

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Early years

Grand Vizierate

Death

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