Reşid Mehmed Pasha
prominent Ottoman statesman and general
1780 CE to 1836 CE
Reşid Mehmed Pasha, also known as Kütahı (1780–1836?} is a prominent Ottoman statesman and general who reaches the post of Grand Vizier in the first half of the nineteenth century, playing an important role in the Greek War of Independence.
World
The Middle of The Earth
View →Related Events
Showing 8 events out of 8 total
The Sublime Porte finally moves against Mustafa Pasha Bushati, the last hereditary governor of the sanjak of Scutari, eight years after the assassination of Ali Pasha of Ioannina by Ottoman agents.
The sultan sends Reshid Pasha, an Ottoman general, to Monastir (now called Bitola, in Macedonia), where he invites one thousand Muslim Albanian leaders to meet him; in August 1830 Reshid Pasha has about five hundred of the Albanian leaders killed.
He now turns on Mustafa Pasha, who surrenders and will spent the rest of his life as an official in Constantinople.
The Sublime Porte, after crushing the Bushatis and Ali Pasha, introduces a series of reforms, known as the tanzimat, which are aimed at strengthening the empire by reining in fractious pashas.
The government organizes a recruitment program for the military and opens Turkish-language schools to propagate Islam and instill loyalty to the empire.
The Albanian timars officially become large individual landholdings, especially in the lowlands.
In 1835 the Sublime Porte divides the Albanian-populated lands into the vilayets of Janina and Rumelia and dispatches officials from Constantinople to administer them.
The Turks lose Silistra in 1829, and ...
...the Russians under General Hans Karl von Diebitsch (1785-1831) win battles at Tcherkovna on June 11 over Grand Vizier Mustafa Reshid Pasha (1802-58) and ...
...at Sliven on August 12.
The Trans-Balkan Offensive launched by Diebitsch will bring the Russian army within sixty-eight kilometer of Istanbul.
Diebitsch and his army, greatly depleted and suffering from plague, march into Adrianople eight days later.
The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War, on September 14, 1829.
Russia gains some territory at the mouth of the Danube, and and the fortresses of Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki in Georgia.
The Sultan recognizes Russia's possession of Georgia (with Imeretia, Mingrelia, Guria) and of the Khanates of Erivan and Nakhichevan which had been ceded to the tsar by Persia in the Treaty of Turkmenchay a year earlier.
The treaty opens the Dardanelles to all commercial vessels, thus liberating commerce for cereals, livestock and wood.
However, it will take the Treaty of Hünkâr İskelesi (1833) to finally settle the Straits Question between the signatories.
Reshid Mehmed Pasha, a distinguished general, had fought in the Russo-Turkish War, where he had been defeated by General Diebitsch at the Battle of Kulevicha.
Subsequently, he had been appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, a post he has held from January 1829.
The sultan sends Reşid Mehmed to Monastir (present Bitola, in Macedonia), where he invites a thousand Muslim Albanian leaders to meet him, and in August 1830, has about half of them killed.
He now turns on Mustafa Pasha Bushati, the ruling dynast of Shkodër, who surrenders; he will spend the rest of his life as an official in Constantinople.