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Mahmud Pasha

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6734500 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mahmud Pasha or Mahmut Pasha may refer to:

People

Mahmud Pasha Angelović (1420–1474), Ottoman grand vizier (1456–68, 1472–74)

Mahmud Pasha (governor) (died 1567), Ottoman governor of Yemen (1561–65) and Egypt (1566–67)

Kara Mahmud Bushati, Pasha of Scutari (1778–96)

Mahmud Dramali Pasha (c. 1780–1822), Ottoman governor of Morea

Mahmud Nedim Pasha (c.

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The public source identifies “Mahmud Pasha” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mahmud, Pasha and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1420, 1474, 1456, 1472—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mahmud, Pasha and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6734500. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1420, 1474, 1456 and 1472.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mahmud Pasha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.