Georgios Verovits
| George Berovich Pasha | |
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| Prince of Samos | |
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In office 1895–1896 |
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| Preceded by | Alexander Karatheodori Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Stephanos Mousouros |
| Wāli of Crete | |
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In office 28 Jun 1896 – 14 Feb 1897 |
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| Preceded by | Abdullah Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Musavir Ismail Bey (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1845 Scutari, Sanjak of Scutari, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania) |
| Died | 1925 Dubrovnik, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Profession | Statesman, Governor-General |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
George Berovich (Serbian: Đorđe Berović, Greek: Γεώργιος Βέροβιτς, Georgios Verovits, 1845–1897), known as Berovich Pasha (Turkish: Beroviç Paşa) was a Christian Ottoman statesman who served as Governor-General (wāli) of Crete and Prince of Samos.
Berovich was born in Scutari, Sanjak of Scutari, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania). He was of Serb ethnic origin. He was the last of a line of Ottoman pashas of the Berovich family. In 19th-century Ottoman Empire, the government asked Christian families to send sons to be educated in Istanbul in order to provide Christian administrators for Christian-majority provinces.
He was appointed to several administrative positions in Turkey. Before coming to Samos, he was a counselor in the vilayet administration of Crete. He came to Samos in the midst of an armed rebellion by the Greek population of the island. Turkish army was poised to send punitive expedition but his intervention provided the mutually accepted compromise. To Greeks he was an independent Prince and the Sultan regarded him as his Pasha.
He settled the economy of the island and he was generally successful in his administration and popular with the Samians. Among other measures, he tried unsuccessfully to institute the permanence of civil servants, but reinforced the freedom of the press, promoted agriculture, and in 1895 he set up the Archaeological Museum of Samos.
He said in a speech before the Samian Parliament : "The Parliament and I have common boundaries. You shouldn't trespass my boundaries and I shouldn't trespass yours. So, we will be friends for ever".
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