As'ad Pasha al-Azm — English Wikipedia

English encyclopedia article on As'ad Pasha al-Azm (c. 1706 – March 1758), Ottoman governor of Damascus 1743–1757: his origins in Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, his crushing of the janissaries in 1746, his protection of the Syrian Hajj caravan, his building of the Azm Palace in Damascus (1750) and Khan As'ad Pasha (1752), his deposition in 1757 and the two accounts of his death.

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