Sofu Mehmed Pasha (governor)

For the Ottoman grand vizier, see Sofu Mehmed Pasha.

Sofu Mehmed Pasha (died 1626) was an Ottoman administrator. Born and raised in Razgrad (today in Bulgaria), Mehmed Pasha served as the Ottoman governor of Egypt Eyalet (1611 – February 1615),[1][2][3] Rumelia Eyalet (1617),[1] Sivas Eyalet (1617–19),[1] and Budin Eyalet (1624–26).[1]

Apart from his governorships, Mehmed Pasha was appointed as a vizier in 1611 and served as the kaymakam to the Grand Vizier (sadâret kaymakamı) from sometime in the 1610s until late 1617, when he was appointed as third vizier.[1] He was reappointed as sadâret kaymakamı in 1619, serving until his appointment as governor of Budin in 1624.[1] He died in 1626.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mehmet Süreyya (1996) [1890], Nuri Akbayar; Seyit A. Kahraman, eds., Sicill-i Osmanî (in Turkish) 4, Beşiktaş, Istanbul: Türkiye Kültür Bakanlığı and Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı, p. 1073
  2. ↑ Yılmaz Öztuna (1994). Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi: Osmanlı Devleti'nin siyasî, medenî, kültür, teşkilât ve san'at tarihi (in Turkish) 10. Ötüken Neşriyat A.S. pp. 412–416. ISBN 975-437-141-5.
  3. ↑ Holt, P. M. (2009). "The beylicate in Ottoman Egypt during the seventeenth century". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 24 (02): 227–229. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00091424. ISSN 0041-977X.
Political offices
Preceded by
Öküz Mehmed Pasha		 Ottoman Governor of Egypt
1611–1615 		Succeeded by
Nişancı Ahmed Pasha


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