
Dukakinzade Mehmed Pasha was an
Ottoman statesman who served as the
beylerbey
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of
Aleppo
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,
Egypt
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, and
Smederevo
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. He was the son of
Dukakinzade Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman
grand vizier
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of
Albanian
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origin.
References
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Dukagjini family
16th-century Albanian people
Ottoman governors of Smederevo
Medieval Albanian generals
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