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Koca Yusuf Pasha

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Yusuf Pasha, 'Koca Yusuf'; a Georgian freedman of the harbour reis Hacı Hasan, a coffee-seller in Kasımpaşa who sailed with the summer convoys to Egypt; attached to Cezayirli Hasan Pasha who made him treasurer when he became kapudan-ı derya; grand vizier twice (1200/1786 and 1205/1791) and serdâr-ı ekrem on the Russo-Austrian front, ending as governor of Damascus and amir of the Hajj 1.

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Ruler · military-leader
Era
The Colonial Era
Region
Anatolia
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Yusuf Pasha, 'Koca Yusuf', twice Ottoman grand vizier in the late eighteenth century 1.

A Georgian freedman of the harbour reis Hacı Hasan, he sold coffee in Kasımpaşa and sailed with the summer convoys to Egypt. Attached to Cezayirli Hasan Pasha, who made him treasurer on becoming kapudan-ı derya. Made governor of the Morea with vizier rank in 1199/1785 and grand vizier in 1200/1786, serdâr-ı ekrem in the Russo-Austrian war of 1787, grand vizier a second time in 1205/1791, and finally governor of Damascus and amir of the Hajj 1.

Sources

  1. Sicill-i Osmani — Mehmed Süreyya (ed. Nuri Akbayar, transcr. Seyit Ali Kahraman) , vol. 5, 'Yusuf Paşa (Koca)'
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