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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 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 and assassin for Ali Bey al-Kabir, Egypt's practical ruler. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jazzar Pasha has received more than 230,898 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Jazzar Pasha is the 4,829th most popular politician (down from 4,452nd in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jazzar Pasha ranks 4,829 out of 19,576Before him are Mithridates V of Pontus, Kamal Jumblatt, Victor Adler, Charles, Prince of Viana, Dorothea Binz, and Naina Yeltsina. After him are Josef Bühler, Takahito, Prince Mikasa, Emperor Fushimi, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, John Rabe, and Zagan Pasha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1722, Jazzar Pasha ranks 5Before him are Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, Gregory Skovoroda, Ahmad Shah Durrani, and Prince Augustus William of Prussia. After him are Georg Benda, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, Samuel Adams, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Paisius Velichkovsky, Pietro Nardini, and Amursana. Among people deceased in 1804, Jazzar Pasha ranks 14Before him are Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Princess Carolina of Parma, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. After him are Antoine Baumé, Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Johann Adam Hiller, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, 8th Dalai Lama, and Martin Vahl.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jazzar Pasha ranks 39 out of 375Before him are Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), Ljupko Petrović (1947), Husein Gradaščević (1802), Sinan Pasha (1500), Lepa Brena (1960), and Zdravko Čolić (1951). After him are Dino Merlin (1962), Momčilo Krajišnik (1945), Silvana Armenulić (1939), Mate Boban (1940), Matrakçı Nasuh (1480), and Bakir Izetbegović (1956).

Among POLITICIANS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among politicians born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jazzar Pasha ranks 20Before him are Catherine of Bosnia (1425), Ante Marković (1924), Ban Kulin (1163), Fikret Abdić (1939), Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), and Sinan Pasha (1500). After him are Momčilo Krajišnik (1945), Mate Boban (1940), Bakir Izetbegović (1956), Miroslav Filipović (1915), Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1404), and Branko Mikulić (1928).