Mahmud Pasha (died 1567) was an Ottoman statesman from Bosnia who served as the Ottoman governor of

Yemen Eyalet ota, ایالت یمن , common_name = Yemen Eyalet , subdivision = Eyalet , nation = the Ottoman Empire , year_start = 1517 , year_end = 1872 , life_span = 1517– ...

from 1561 to 1565 until being deposed, and of

Egypt Eyalet The Eyalet of Egypt (, ) operated as an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1517 to 1867. It originated as a result of the conquest of Mamluk Egypt by the Ottomans in 1517, following the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17) and the a ...

from 1566 until his assassination by gunfire in 1567. He was described as an "unscrupulous," corrupt, but wealthy official with "the riches of the al-Nazaris in his possession." He reportedly disliked his successor for the governorship of Yemen,

Ridwan Pasha Riḍwān ibn Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAbd al-Muʿīn Pasha ( Turkish transliteration: ''Ridvan Pasha''; died 2 April 1585) was a 16th-century Ottoman statesman. He served terms as governor of Gaza in the early 1560s and in 1570–1573, Yemen in 1564/ ...

, and purposefully made his job harder with actions he took just before his removal from office. As the governor of Egypt, Mahmud Pasha had the Al-Mahmoudia Mosque built in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

, which still stands today.

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Ottoman governors of Egypt 16th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt Pashas 1567 deaths Year of birth unknown Ottoman governors of Yemen Assassinated people from the Ottoman Empire {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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