Abaza Mehmed Pasha
Abaza Mehmed Pascha ( Turkish Abaza Mehmed Paşa , Abkhazian Меҳмеҭ Росҭом-иҧа Лакырба ; * 1576 ; † August 24, 1634 ) was successively as Beylerbey of Maraş , Erzurum , Bosnia and Silistra an important official and military leader in the service of the Ottoman Empire . He was probably of Abkhaz origin.
Abaza Mehmed Pasha was the namesake of the Abaza uprisings . Due to his defeat against Poland-Lithuania 1633-1634 he was executed by order of Sultan Murad IV .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mehmet Süreyya: Sicill-i Osmanî . Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, Istanbul 1996, p. 1039
- ^ Leslie P. Peirce: The Imperial Harem: Women And Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire , Oxford University Press US, 1993, p. 220.
- ↑ Selcuk Aksin Somel: Historical Dictionary of the Ottoman Empire . Scarecrow Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8108-6606-5 , pp. 37-.
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| SURNAME | Abaza Mehmed Pasha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abaza Mehmed Paşa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Officials and military leaders in the service of the Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1576 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1634 |