This article is about the Ottoman governor of Ozi. For other people with the same name and title, see
Iskender Pasha.
Iskender Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسکندر پاشا, Turkish: İskender Paşa; fl. 1620) was an Ottoman commander and the beylerbey of Oczakov (Ozi).[when?] In 1620 Iskender Paşa led an Ottoman army, with Wallachian contingents (13,000-22,000) against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Cecora, where he was victorious.[1] In 1613–1614 he was the beylerbey of the Bosnia Eyalet.
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- ^ History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey by Ezel Kural Shaw p.191 [1]