Silahdar Ali Pasha
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Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha |
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| Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire | |
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In office 27 April 1713 – 5 August 1716 |
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| Monarch | Ahmed III |
| Preceded by | Hoca Ibrahim Pasha |
| Succeeded by | Hacı Halil Pasha |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1667 İznik, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 5 August 1716 Petrovaradin, Serbia |
| Nationality |
 Turkish
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| Military service | |
| Battles/wars | |
Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18
Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–18)
Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha (1667 – 5 August 1716), also called Silahdar Ali Pasha, was an Ottoman general and Grand Vizier. His epithet silahdar means arms bearer and damat means bridegroom.
Ali Pasha was born to a Turkish family in Iznik (ancient Nicaea), in modern Turkey. His father’s name was Hacı Hüseyin. He was trained in the Enderun palace school in Istanbul and during the reign of Mustafa II he was appointed to be the personal secretary of the sultan. In 1709, he was engaged to the daughter of Ahmet III, gaining the title damat (English: bridegroom) and was appointed as the Second Vizier. On 27 April 1713, he became the Grand Vizier.
Shortly after his appointment, he succeeded in ratifying the Treaty of Pruth with Russia, thus securing the northern frontiers of the Ottoman Empire at Dnieper River.
By early 1714, his attention shifted to the Morea (the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece), which had been held by the Republic of Venice since the Morean War and the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz. The Ottomans had never been reconciled to its loss. When the Venetians gave refuge to Serbian rebels from Montenegro and Herzegovina in their Dalmatian province, and some of their merchants were involved in disputes with Ottoman vessels, the Ottoman Porte (government) swiftly used this as a pretext to declare war.
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