Damat (, from {{langx, fa, {{nq, داماد (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title describing men that entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom to the

Ottoman sultan The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (), who were all members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental empire from its perceived inception in 1299 to Dissolution of the Ottoman Em ...

and the dynasty. In almost all cases, this occurred when a man married an Ottoman princess. Among others, the following people were damats to the Ottoman dynasty: *

Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha Hersekzade or Hersekli Ahmed Pasha ("Ahmed Pasha, son of the Herzog"; Serbo-Croatian: ''Ahmed-paša Hercegović''; Aхмед-паша Херцеговић; 1456 – 21 July 1517), born as Stjepan Hercegović, was an Ottoman Bosnian general and ...

, Grand Vizier (1497–98, 1503–06, 1511, 1512–14, 1515–16) * Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1706–10) * Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1713–16) * Bayram Pasha, Grand Vizier (1637–38) *

Kara Davud Pasha Kara Davud Pasha, also known as simply Davud Pasha () or as Hain Davud Pasha ("Davud Pasha the Traitor"), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman statesman who became briefly Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1622, ...

, Grand Vizier (1622) * Koca Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1482–97) * Ebubekir Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1732–33, 1750–51) *

Enver Pasha İsmâil Enver (; ; 23 November 1881 – 4 August 1922), better known as Enver Pasha, was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turkish people, Turkish military officer, revolutionary, and Istanbul trials of 1919–1920, convicted war criminal who was a p ...

, Minister of War (1913–18) *

Damat Ferid Pasha " Damat" Mehmed Adil Ferid Pasha ( ;‎ 1853 – 6 October 1923), known simply as Damat Ferid Pasha, was an Ottoman liberal statesman, who held the office of Grand Vizier, the ''de facto'' prime minister of the Ottoman Empire, during two ...

, Grand Vizier (1919, 1920) * Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier (1616–19, 1626–28) * Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1703–04) * Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1601–03) * Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1792–1803) * Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1596, 1596–97, 1599–1601) *

Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha ( 1662 – 1 October 1730) served as Grand Vizier for Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Ahmed III of the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip period. He was also the head of a ruling family which had great influence ...

, Grand Vizier (1718–30) * Lütfi Pasha, Grand Vizier (1539–41) * Ibşir Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier (1654–55) *

Kara Mustafa Pasha Kara Mustafa Pasha (; ; "Mustafa Pasha the Courageous"; 1634/1635 – 25 December 1683) was an Ottoman nobleman, military figure and Grand Vizier, who was a central character in the Ottoman Empire's last attempts at expansion into both Centr ...

, governor of Egypt (1623, 1624–26) * Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1852–53) *

Öküz Mehmed Pasha "Öküz" Mehmed Pasha ("Mehmed Pasha the Ox"), also known as Kara Mehmed Pasha ("the Black") or "Kul Kıran" Mehmed Pasha ("the Disciple-breaker"), was an Ottoman Turkish statesman, administrator, and military figure of the early 17th century. H ...

, Grand Vizier (1614–16, 1619) * Gümülcineli Damat Nasuh Pasha, Grand Vizier (1611–14) * Ahmed Nami Bey, the 5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria (1926–28), and a lecturer of History and Politics *

Köprülü Numan Pasha Köprülü may refer to: People * Köprülü family (Kypriljotet), an Ottoman noble family of Albanian origin ** Köprülü era (1656–1703), the period in which the Ottoman Empire's politics were set by the Grand Viziers, mainly the Köprülü fa ...

, Grand Vizier (1710) * Koca Ragıp Pasha, Grand Vizier (1757–63) * Rüstem Pasha, Grand Vizier (1544–53, 1555–61) * Ahmad Beg * Ughurlu Muhammad

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