Gedik Ahmed Pasha

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Gedik
Ahmed
Pasha
کدك احمد پاشا
Karamanlı Mehmed Pasha
Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Fleet
Sanjakbeyi of Avlonya
In office
1478–c.1481
MonarchMehmed II
Preceded byunknown
Succeeded byMesih Pasha
Beylerbeyi of Anatolia
In office
c.1462–1470
MonarchMehmed II
Preceded byIshak Pasha
Succeeded byKoca Davud Pasha
Beylerbeyi of Rum
In office
c.1451–1462 – c.1451–1462
MonarchMehmed II
Personal details
Born
Siege of Mangup
Siege of Negroponte (1470)

Gedik Ahmed Pasha (

Grand Vizier and Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Navy) during the reigns of sultans Mehmed II and Bayezid II.[1][2]

Very little was known about Gedik Ahmed Pasha in primary sources until late in historiography. Serbia and Albania had both been proposed as geographical regions for his birthplace and Mükrimin Halil Yinanç had even claimed that he was descended from the Byzantine Greek

Palaiologos dynasty based on unnamed Western sources Yinanç claimed to have access to. Later research in the Ottoman archives of Vranje (southeastern Serbia) by Aleksandar Stojanovski established that Gedik Ahmed Pasha was a member of the local Serbian feudal families of the area and was born in the village Punoševce.[3][4][5]

Leading the Ottoman Army, he defeated the last

Mennan and Silifke, proved crucial for the future of the Ottomans.[citation needed
]

Gedik Ahmed Pasha also fought against

Soldaia, Cembalo and other Genoese castles as well as the Principality of Theodoro with its capital Mangup and the coastal regions of Crimea. He rescued the Khan of Crimea, Meñli I Giray, from Genoese forces.[6] As a result of this campaign, Crimea and Circassia
entered into the Ottoman sphere of influence.

In 1479, when he was a

Kefalonia, and Zante (Zakynthos). Since he had conquered Constantinople in 1453, Mehmed II saw himself as the inheritor of the Roman Empire and seriously considered the conquest of Italy to reunite Roman lands under his dynasty. As part of this plan, Gedik Ahmed Pasha was sent with a naval force to the heel of the Italian peninsula.[2]

After a

took the Italian harbor city of Otranto in 1480.[9] However, due to lack of food and supplies, he had to return with most of his troops to Albania
in the same year, planning to continue the campaign in 1481.

The death of Mehmed II prevented this. Instead, Ahmet sided with Bayezid II in the struggle for who would succeed the sultan. However, Bayezid II did not fully trust Ahmed and had him imprisoned and later killed on 18 November 1482.[3][10]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-3932-4557-8
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  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-6106-9389-9
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  3. ^
    ISBN 90-04-12106-4
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  4. ^ Reindl-Kiel, Hedda. "GEDİK AHMED PAŞA". TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-03-25.
  5. ISBN 978-0-7914-8726-6
    . Retrieved 20 February 2013. While little is known about the early years of Gedik Ahmed Pasa, the Turkish scholar Mükrimin Halil Yinanç has cited unnamed Western sources claiming that he was of Palaiologan origin. More recently, the 1985 study on the Serbian region of Vranje by Aleksandar Stojanovski, has established that Gedik Ahmed Pasa was a member of the minor Serbian aristocracy
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-1-3520-0414-4
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  7. ISBN 0-87169-127-2
  8. ISBN 978-0-691-01078-6
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  9. ISBN 978-1-4381-1025-7
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  10. ISBN 978-0-5212-9135-4
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Further reading

  • E. Hamilton Currey, Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean, London, 1910
  • Bono, Salvatore: Corsari nel Mediterraneo (Corsairs in the Mediterranean), Oscar Storia Mondadori. Perugia, 1993.

External links
Political offices
Preceded by
Mahmud Pasha Angelovic
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire

1474–1477 		Succeeded by
Karamanlı Mehmed Pasha
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