Mehmed Raşid pašša
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Mehmed Rashid Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who served as the vali (governor) of Syria Vilayet in 1866-1871 and as minister of foreign affairs of the Ottoman government in 1873-1874 and 1875 until his death.
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After moving to Istanbul in 1851, Rashid Pasha became a protégé of the reformist statesman Mehmed Ali Pasha (pictured)
Map of the Levant under Ottoman rule in 1851, showing the eyalets of Tripoli, Damascus, Acre and Gaza. The territory of all four provinces approximately formed the Syria Vilayet in 1865, with the exception of Mount Lebanon. Rashid Pasha was governor of Syria in 1866-1871
Damascus, the capital of Syria Vilayet, in 1895
Portrait of Cerkes Hassan Bey, who gunned down Rashid Pasha in 1876Politicians from Turkey 6
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Mehmed Rashid Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who served as the vali (governor) of Syria Vilayet in 1866-1871 and as minister of foreign affairs of the Ottoman government in 1873-1874 and 1875 until his death. Rashid Pasha was raised in Egypt where his father was an aide of the governor Muhammad Ali and was educated in Paris before joining government service in Istanbul in 1851. There he became a protege of the grand vizier Ali Pasha, a key figure in the empire-wide Tanzimat reforms. After the latter was reappointed grand vizier in 1866, Rashid Pasha was appointed governor of the Damascus-centered Syria Vilayet which extended from Tripoli and Hama in the north to Palestine and Transjordan in the south.
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