Koca Yusuf Pasha was an
Ottoman statesman. He was
grand vizier from 25 January 1786 to 28 May 1789 (during reign of
Abdul Hamid I
Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid I ( ota, عبد الحميد اول, ''`Abdü’l-Ḥamīd-i evvel''; tr, Birinci Abdülhamid; 20 March 1725 – 7 April 1789) was the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning over the Ottoman Empire from 1774 ...
), and
Kapudan Pasha
The Kapudan Pasha ( ota, قپودان پاشا, modern Turkish: ), was the Grand Admiral of the navy of the Ottoman Empire. He was also known as the ( ota, قپودان دریا, links=no, modern: , "Captain of the Sea"). Typically, he was bas ...
(
Grand Admiral
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Grand admirals in individual n ...
of the
Ottoman Navy) after 19 December 1789.
[İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, ''Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı'', pp. 172 ff. Türkiye Yayınevi (Istanbul), 1971. ] He became grand vizier again, this time serving from 12 February 1791 until mid-1792 (during reign of
Selim III).
He was a
Georgian convert to
Islam and also served as the
governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
of the
Peloponnese.
[The decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire By Alan Palmer, pg. 52]
See also
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List of Ottoman Grand Viziers
References
18th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire
Muslims from Georgia (country)
Pashas
Georgians from the Ottoman Empire
Kapudan Pashas
Governors of the Ottoman Empire
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