Silahdar Süleyman Pasha (

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transliteration: ''Sulaymān Pasha al-Siliḥdār'', died 1837) was the Ottoman governor of Damascus Eyalet from February 1812 to May 1816.

Biography

Silahdar was from

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in central

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, but his government career was made in the Ottoman capital,

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. He replaced

Sulayman Pasha al-Adil Sulayman Pasha al-Adil (c. 1760s – August 1819; given name also spelled ''Suleiman'' or ''Sulaiman'') was the Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet between 1805 and 1819, ruling from his Acre headquarters. He also simultaneously served as governor o ...

as governor of Damascus and his appointment marked the permanent end of a trend whereby local rulers or non-local rulers who made their careers in Syria, such as the al-Azm family or

Jazzar Pasha Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar ( ar, أحمد باشا الجزّار; ota, جزّار أحمد پاشا; ca. 1720–30s7 May 1804) was the Acre-based Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet from 1776 until his death in 1804 and the simultaneous governor of Da ...

and his

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heirs in

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, were appointed to the governorship. During his first days as governor, Silahdar faced a rebellion by the janissary commander of the Citadel of Damascus, Ali Agha al-Baghdadi, who refused to accept Silahdar's authority. After a siege of several days, Ali Agha surrendered, was executed and the remaining rebellious janissaries were allowed to leave the city unharmed. In 1813, Silahdar commissioned the Kurdish Dalat cavalry commander of Hama, Mullah Isma'il, to oversee that year's tax collection tour in the province. Silahdar was commended by the Damascene chronicler and Silahdar's contemporary, Hasan Agha al-'Abd, for successfully protecting and provisioning the

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caravans of 1813 and 1814 as part of his duty as '' amir al-hajj'' (commander of the Hajj caravan); Al-'Abd accompanied Silahdar during the Hajj of 1813. Silahdar was replaced by Hafiz Amasyali Ali Pasha in May 1816. Silahdar died in 1837.

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