Hadım Suleiman Pasha
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1541 to 1544
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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.[3]
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| 31st Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
| In office April 1541 – 28 November 1544 | |
| Monarch | Suleiman I |
| Preceded by | Lütfi Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Rüstem Pasha |
| Ottoman Governor of Egypt | |
| In office 1537–1538 | |
| Preceded by | Divane Hüsrev Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Davud Pasha |
| In office 1525–1535 | |
| Preceded by | Güzelce Kasım Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Divane Hüsrev Pasha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1467 |
| Died | September 1547 (aged 79–80) Malkara, Sanjak of Vize, Ottoman Empire |
He was nominated governor of Baghdad in 1535–1536 after the recent Capture of Baghdad (1534).[4] He was appointed to Buda in 1536, then to Damascus in 1537.[4]
He again served as the governor of Ottoman Egypt in 1537–1538.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]
Suleiman Pasha was designated as governor of Aleppo in 1539–1540.[4] He finally became Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire between 1541 and 1544.[8] He was a eunuch.
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