Iskender Pasha (governor of Ozi)

Iskender Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسکندر پاشا‎, Turkish: Iskender Paşa; fl. 1620) was an Ottoman commander and the beylerbey of Oczakov (Ozi). In 1620 Iskender Paşa led an Ottoman army, with Wallachian contingents (13,000-22,000) against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Cecora, where he was victorious.[1] In 1613–1614 he was the beylerbey of the Bosnia Eyalet.

Iskender Paşa led the Ottoman victory against the Poles at the Battle of Ţuţora.

Notes
  1. History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey by Ezel Kural Shaw p.191
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