Ivazzade Halil Pasha (1724–1777) was an
Ottoman statesman who served as
Grand Vizier
Grand vizier (; ; ) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. It was first held by officials in the later Abbasid Caliphate. It was then held in the Ottoman Empire, the Mughal Empire, the Soko ...
in 1769. He was the son of Grand Vizier
Ivaz Mehmed Pasha.
[İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, Türkiye Yayınevi, İstanbul, 1971 (Turkish) p.63.] He was of
Albanian
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*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
origin.
[Danişmend (1971), p. 63. (Turkish)
]
He took part in Russian Wars under the title of ''serdar-i ekrem'' (Commander General of the Army).
After he had been excused from military service, he was sequentially appointed to the governorship of the
Sanjak of Eğriboz (eastern
Central Greece), the
Eyalet of Bosnia
The Eyalet of Bosnia (; By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters ; ), was an eyalet (administrative division, also known as a ''beylerbeylik'') of the Ottoman Empire, mostly based on the territory of the present-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ...
, the
Eyalet of Salonika, and the
Eyalet of Sivas.
References
18th-century grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire
1724 births
1777 deaths
Albanian grand viziers of the Ottoman Empire
Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire
People of the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)
18th-century Albanian people
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