Ahmed_Hamdi_Pasha

Ahmed Hamdi Pasha

Ahmed Hamdi Pasha

Ottoman monarchist, administrator and statesman (1826–1885)


Ahmed Hamdi Pasha (1826–1885) was an Ottoman monarchist, administrator and conservative statesman during the First Constitutional Era.

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Biography

He was the governor of İzmir from 1873 to 1874.[1] From 1875 to 8 May 1876, and from 1880 to 1885, he was the governor of Damascus, Syria.[2][3][4] In 1876 he was also the governor of Shkodër, Albania for a brief period.[5]

He served shortly as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 11 January 1878 to 4 February 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878).

The Sultan Abdul Hamid II[6] dismissed him upon pressure of the Young Ottomans during the First Constitutional Era.[7][8]

He is buried in Beirut, Lebanon, in Bachoura cemetery.


References

  1. Nezar AlSayyad (2001). Hybrid Urbanism: On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-0-275-96612-6.
  2. Zachs, Weismann (2005-03-24). Ottoman Reform and Muslim Regeneration. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-85043-757-4.
  3. Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman (eds.), Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish), Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, pp. 590–591, ISBN 9789753330411
  4. Fischbach, Michael R. (2000). State, Society, and Land in Jordan. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11912-3.
  5. Devereux, 240; Mümtaz Soysal, 100 Soruda Anayasa’nın Anlamı (İstanbul: Gerçek, 1969), 28.



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