Gazi Ahmet Muhtar Pasha
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Gazi Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha |
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| Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
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In office 22 July 1912 – 29 October 1912 |
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| Monarch | Mehmed V |
| Preceded by | Mehmed Said Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Kâmil Pasha |
| Ottoman Governor of Crete | |
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In office 1878–1878 |
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| Preceded by | Konstantinos Adosidis |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Karatheodori |
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In office 1875–1876 |
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| Preceded by | Redif Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Hasan Sami |
| Personal details | |
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1 November 1839 Bursa, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 21 January 1919 (aged 79) Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
| Children | Mahmud Muhtar Pasha |
| Alma mater | Ottoman Military College |
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| Nickname(s) | The Victorious |
| Allegiance |
 Ottoman Empire
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| Service/branch |
 Ottoman Army
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| Years of service | 1856–1885 |
| Rank | Field marshal |
| Commands | Second Army Corps |
| Battles/wars |
Crimean War Herzegovina Uprising Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) |
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Ahmed Mukhtar Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: احمد مختار پاشا; 1 November 1839 – 21 January 1919) was an Ottoman field marshal and grand vizier.
Ahmed Muhtar was born on 1 November 1839 to a Turkish family in Bursa in the Ottoman Empire and was educated in the Ottoman Military College in Constantinople (modern Istanbul). He eventually became professor and then governor of the school.
In 1856, he served as an adjutant during the Crimean War. In 1862, he was a staff officer in the disastrous Montenegrin campaign. Between 1870 and 1871, he quelled rebellions in Yemen. He gained the titles of Pasha and Marshal and, in 1873, was made commander of the Second Army Corps, holding the position until 1876. During the 1875 uprisings in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he assumed control of the Turkish forces there. On the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878, he was sent to take charge of operations in Erzurum. Although the Russians ultimately defeated the Ottomans in the war, Muhtar's victories against them in the eastern front won him the title Gazi ("Victorious").
In 1879, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha was appointed the commander of the Ottoman Empire's frontier with Greece, before being sent in 1885 to serve as the Ottoman High Commissioner in Egypt.
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