Hadım (Eunuch) Suleiman Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: خادم سلیمان پاشا; Turkish: Hadım Süleyman Paşa; c. 1467 – September 1547) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander of Greek descent.[1][2] He served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1525–1535 and 1537–1538, and as Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544.[3] He was a eunuch.
The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered Suleiman Pasha as governor of Egypt to conduct a naval expedition in the Indian Ocean, where he led the capture of Aden and the siege of Diu (in Portuguese India) in 1538.[4] Suleiman Pasha was a benefactor of his long-serving successor in the Egyptian governorship, Davud Pasha (served 1538–1549), whom he championed for the role to spite his rival and colleague, Rüstem Pasha.[5]
See also
- Ottoman naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean
- List of Ottoman grand viziers
- List of Ottoman governors of Egypt
References
- ^ Clot, André (2012). Suleiman the Magnificent. Saqi. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-86356-803-9.
The fleet was put under the orders of Hadim Suleiman Pasha, the beylerbey of Egypt, a eunuch of Greek origin...
- ^ Markotic, Vladimir (1987). Emigrants from Croatia and Their Achievements: Symposium. Western Publishers. ISBN 978-0-919119-12-3.
Suleiman Pasha al-Khadim, a eunuch of Greek origin...
- ^ Turkish State Archives
- ^ A military history of modern Egypt: from the Ottoman Conquest to the Ramadan War by Andrew James McGregor p.30 [1]
- ^ Giancarlo Casale (26 January 2010). The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford University Press. pp. 87, 102. ISBN 978-0-19-979879-7.
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