Abdul-Karim-Nadir-Pasha (obsolete. Abdul-Kerim-pasha [1] tour. Abdülkerim Nadir Pasa ; 1807 , Chirpan , Bulgaria - 1883 or February 1885, Rhodes island) - Turkish Marshal ( 1876 ) .
| Abdul Kerim Nadir Pasha | |
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| tour. Çırpanlı Abdülkerim Nadir Paşa | |
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| Date of Birth | 1807 |
| Place of Birth | Chirpan , Bulgaria |
| Date of death | 1883 or 1885 |
| Place of death | Rhodes |
| Affiliation |  Ottoman Empire |
| Rank | Marshal ( 1876 ) |
| Commanded | Anatolian army Minister of War Minister of Police |
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Born in the city of Chirpan in Central Bulgaria , after graduating from the Military Academy in Istanbul, he participated in the war against Russia (1828-1829) , then continued his military education in Vienna (1836-1841). During the new war against Russia (the Eastern, or Crimean War ) he commanded the Anatolian army , was defeated near Bashkadiklar on December 1, 1853 , was put on trial, but acquitted.
In 1862, under the leadership of Omer Pasha, he participated in a campaign in Montenegro , during the rebellion of 1867 - 1868, he commanded an observational corps in Thessaly on the island of Crete . Under Murad V in 1876 he was made Minister of War and at the same time Commander-in-Chief of the Turkish Army , then Minister of Police, began work on reorganizing the army in a European manner, opened several military schools, but with the accession of Abdul-Hamid II on August 31, 1876 he was removed from his post Minister of War. Appointed commander of the army in the war against Serbia and Montenegro , defeated the Serbs under Junis and received the rank of Marshal (Mushira).
In the next war with Russia (1877-1878) he was commander in chief on the Danube , failed to prevent the Russian troops from crossing the Danube, was forced to retreat, was deprived of command on July 23, 1877, and exiled to Rhodes , where he died several years later.
Notes
- ↑ Abdul-Kerim Pasha // Small Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 4 volumes - St. Petersburg. 1907-1909.
Links
- Abdulkerim Nadir Pasha // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- Abdul-Karim Pasha // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.