Person
Hassan Pasha (Mamluk)
governor of Baghdad in Ottoman Iraq
Hassan Pasha (Arabic: حسن باشا, Georgian: ჰასან ფაშა, 1657–1723) was the governor of Baghdad in Ottoman Iraq from 1704 until his death in 1723 and the founder of the Mamluk state of Iraq. Of Georgian origin, he succeeded Vizier Ali Pasha. He was the father of Ahmad Pasha, who succeeded him as governor as well as the grandfather of Adila Khatun, the wife of Sulaiman Abu Layla who would also take the position after Ahmad Pasha.