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- Ruler · military-leader
- Era
- The Gunpowder Empires
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- Anatolia
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Summary
Süleyman Pasha, nicknamed 'the Armenian' and 'Koca' — the Great — a seventeenth-century Ottoman vizier 1.
A kinsman of İsmail Agha of Malatya, whence the byname 'the Armenian'. Palace-bred, he became rikâbdar, was made vizier and agha of the Janissaries in Dhu'l-Hijja 1062/November 1652; dismissed in Rabīʿ II 1063 and sent to Crete with the sancak of Malatya, then recalled in 1064/1654 as a kubbe vizier 1.
Sources
- Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 5, 'Süleyman Paşa (Koca)'
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