Koja Yusuf Pasha ( tour: Koca Yusuf Paşa , 1730 , Georgia - 1800 , Jeddah ) - Ottoman statesman. Twice was the great vizier of the Ottoman Empire . [one]
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| Predecessor | Sahin Ali Pasha | ||||||
| Successor | Ketuda Zerkes Hassan Pasha | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Ruschuklu Celebizade Sheriff Hassan Pasha | ||||||
| Successor | Damad Melik Mehmed Pasha | ||||||
| Birth | 1730 Georgia | ||||||
| Death | 1800 Jeddah | ||||||
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Biography
Koja Yusuf Pasha was born in 1730 in Georgia. He was captured and enslaved and brought to Istanbul. He converted to Islam and was freed by Captain Hassan Effendi. Swam in the merchant fleet. Then he served with Hassan Pasha in Algeria, who, becoming Kapudan Pasha , appointed him treasurer. In 1785, the governor of Mora elevated him to the rank of vizier.
On January 25, 1786, Sultan Abdul-Hamid I appointed him the Great Vizier. He held this post until May 7, 1789. During the Russo-Turkish War (1787-1792) he was commander in chief of the Ottoman Empire. In the Battle of Caransebes he defeated the army of the Austrian Empire, led by Joseph II of Austria [2] under surprising circumstances: he reached the battlefield only two days later, and the Austrians killed themselves as a result of a drunken mass fight.
December 19, 1789 was appointed to the post of Kapudan Pasha; in 1790 he received the position of Governor General of Konya , after which he was Governor General of Bosnia.
On February 15, 1791, Sultan Selim III again appointed him to the post of Great Vizier. May 4, 1792 resigned. In 1793 he was appointed Governor-General of Jeddah and guard of Medina.
Koja Yusuf Pasha died in 1800 in Jeddah.
In Istanbul, the Kabatash district still has a fountain built with funds from Koja Yusuf Pasha.
See also
- List of Kapudan Pasha of the Ottoman Empire
- List of Great Ottoman Viziers
Notes
- ↑ Sadrazam Koca Yusuf Paşa (unavailable link) . Date of treatment May 25, 2013. Archived December 8, 2015.
- ↑ Koca Yusuf Paşa ve Sebeş Zaferi, Vehbi Tülek (link not available)
Sources
- Ayhan Buz (2009). Osmanlı Sadrazamları. İstanbul: Neden Kitap, ISBN 978-975-254-278-5
- İsmail Hâmi Danişmend (1971). Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı. İstanbul: Türkiye Yayınevi
- Mehmed Süreyya (haz. Nuri Akbayar) (1996). Sicill-i Osmani. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları ISBN 975-333-0383 C.5
- Nazim Tektaş (2002). Sadrâzamlar Osmanlı'da İkinci Adam Saltanatı. İstanbul: Çatı Yayınevi
- Sadrazam Koca Yusuf Paşa