Mehmet Akif Pasha Explained

Mehmet Akif
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Birth Date:1822
Birth Place:Kalkandelen, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Death Date:1893 (aged 71)
Death Place:Çanakkale, Vilayet of the Archipelago, Ottoman Empire
Restingplace:Fatih Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

Mehmet Akif Pasha (1822 - 1893), also known as Arnavut Mehmet Akif Pasha (Mehmet Akif Pasha the Albanian) or Kalkandereli Mehmet Akif Pasha, was an Ottoman[1] -Albanian statesman and governor in the Ottoman Empire. From 1860 to 1893, he was the governor of Salonica Vilayet, Danube Vilayet, Bosnia Vilayet, Prizren Vilayet, Janina Vilayet, Adrianople Vilayet, Baghdad Vilayet, Konya Vilayet, Vilayet of the Archipelago.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Fabijancic, Tony . Bosnia: In the Footsteps of Gavrilo Princip . 2010 . The University of Alberta Press . Ring House 2, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6C2E1 . 50 . 9780888645197. 2014-09-23.
  2. Son Dönem Osmanlı Erkan ve Ricali (1839 - 1922) Prosopografik Rehber, Sinan Kuneralp, ISIS Press, İstanbul,, 1999