Damat

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Royal and noble ranks in Iran, Turkey, Caucasus, Pakistan and Afghanistan

Shah : Emperor
High King
King : Sultan, Sultana, Padishah
Royal Prince : Shahzada (Şehzade), Mirza
Noble Prince : Sahibzada
Nobleman: Nawab, Baig, Begzada
Royal house : Damat,
Governmental : Lala, Agha, Hazinedar

Damat (Turkish: damat, "bridegroom"; from Persian: داماد‎ dāmād, "son-in-law") was an official Ottoman title describing men that entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom to the Ottoman sultan and the dynasty. In almost all cases, this occurred when a man married an Ottoman princess.

Among others, the following people were damats to the Ottoman dynasty:

Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1706–10)
Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1713–16)
Bayram Pasha, Grand Vizier (1637–38)
Koca Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1482–97)
Ebubekir Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1732–33, 1750–51)
Enver Pasha, Minister of War (1913–1918)
Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier (1919, 1920)
Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier (1616–19, 1626–28)
Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1703–04)
Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1601–03)
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1792–1803)
Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1596, 1596–97, 1599–1601)
Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1718–30)
Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1523–36)
Lütfi Pasha, Grand Vizier (1539–41)
Ibşir Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier (1654–55)
Kara Mustafa Pasha, governor of Egypt (1623, 1624–26)
Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1852–53)
Öküz Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1614–16, 1619)
Gümülcineli Damat Nasuh Pasha, Grand Vizier (1611–14)
Köprülü Numan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1710)
Rüstem Pasha, Grand Vizier (1544–53, 1555–61)

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