Iskender Pasha

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This article is about the Ottoman governor of Oczakov. For the Ottoman governor of Egypt (1556–1559), see Iskender Pasha (governor of Egypt). For the Polish-Ottoman officer, see Antoni Aleksander Iliński.

Iskender Paşa led the Ottoman victory against the Poles at the Battle of Ţuţora.

Iskender Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسکندر پاشا), also Iskender Paşa, was an Ottoman Commander and the beylerbey of Oczakov (Ozi). In 1620 Iskender Paşa led an Ottoman army, with Wallachian contingents (13,000-22,000) against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Ţuţora, where he was victorious.^[1]

Notes

↑ History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey by Ezel Kural Shaw p.191

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