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Jazzar Pasha

1722 - 1804

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Ahmed Pasha al-Jazzar (Arabic: أحمد باشا الجزّار, c. 1720–30s – 7 May 1804) was the Acre-based Bosniak Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet from 1776 until his death in 1804 and the simultaneous governor of Damascus Eyalet in 1785–1786, 1790–1795, 1798–1799, and 1803–1804. Having left his native Bosnia as a youth, he began a military career in Egypt in the service of mamluk officials, eventually becoming a chief enforcer for Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egypt's practical ruler. Al-Jazzar fell out with Ali Bey in 1768 after refusing to take part in the assassination of another of his former masters. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jazzar Pasha is the 5,330th most popular politician (down from 4,829th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 20th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jazzar Pasha ranks 5,330 out of 19,576. Before him are Ahuitzotl, Theodora Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem, Bjarni Benediktsson, Yevgeny Mravinsky, George Abela, and Tiridates I of Armenia. After him are Abdelkader Bensalah, Walter Simons, Egica, Anne Hidalgo, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, and Marie de Rohan.

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Among people born in 1722, Jazzar Pasha ranks 7. Before him are Ahmad Shah Durrani, Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Prince Augustus William of Prussia, Gregory Skovoroda, Georg Benda, and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. After him are Paisius of Hilendar, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Leopold Auenbrugger, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, and Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt. Among people deceased in 1804, Jazzar Pasha ranks 13. Before him are Pierre Méchain, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. After him are Princess Carolina of Parma, Antoine Baumé, Martin Vahl, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Johann Adam Hiller, and Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jazzar Pasha ranks 39 out of 375. Before him are Ljupko Petrović (1947), Bekim Fehmiu (1936), Ban Kulin (1163), Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), Fikret Abdić (1939), and Bakir Izetbegović (1956). After him are Momčilo Krajišnik (1945), Husein Gradaščević (1802), Mate Boban (1940), David Elazar (1925), Milan Galić (1938), and Miroslav Filipović (1915).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among politicians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jazzar Pasha ranks 20. Before him are Vojislav Šešelj (1954), Catherine of Bosnia (1425), Ban Kulin (1163), Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), Fikret Abdić (1939), and Bakir Izetbegović (1956). After him are Momčilo Krajišnik (1945), Mate Boban (1940), Miroslav Filipović (1915), Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1404), Šefik Džaferović (1957), and Željko Komšić (1964).

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