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Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha

Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha

Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha or Dukaginoğlu Ahmed Pasha (Albanian: Ahmed Pashë Dukagjini; Ottoman Turkish: دوقکین زاده أحمد پاشا; Turkish: Dukakinoğlu Ahmed Paşa; died 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 Dukagjini family, one of the strongest in pre-Ottoman medieval Albania. Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha was the son of Nicholas Pal Dukagjini and Kiranna Arianiti Comnena.