Damat
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| Emperor: Shahanshah | |
| High king: Padishah | |
| King: Shah, Sultan, Sultana, | |
| Royal prince: Shahzada (Şehzade), Mirza | |
| Noble prince: Sahibzada | |
| Nobleman: Nawab, Bey, Begzada | |
| Royal house: Damat | |
| Governmental: Lala, Agha, Hazinedar |
Damat (Turkish: damat, from Persian: داماد (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title for a man who entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom of an Ottoman princess, usually a daughter or sister of the Ottoman sultan.[1]: 202
Among others, the following people were damats to the Ottoman dynasty:
- Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1497–98, 1503–06, 1511, 1512–14, 1515–16)
- Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1706–10)
- Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1713–16)
- Bayram Pasha, Grand Vizier (1637–38)
- Kara Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1622)
- Koca Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1482–97)
- Ebubekir Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1732–33, 1750–51)
- Enver Pasha, Minister of War (1913–18)
- Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier (1919, 1920)
- Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier (1616–19, 1626–28)
- Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1703–04)
- Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1601–03)
- Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1792–1803)
- Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1596, 1596–97, 1599–1601)
- Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1718–30)
- Lütfi Pasha, Grand Vizier (1539–41)
- Ibşir Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier (1654–55)
- Kara Mustafa Pasha, governor of Egypt (1623, 1624–26)
- Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1852–53)
- Öküz Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1614–16, 1619)
- Gümülcineli Damat Nasuh Pasha, Grand Vizier (1611–14)
- Ahmed Nami Bey, the 5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria (1926–28), and a lecturer of History and Politics
- Köprülü Numan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1710)
- Koca Ragıp Pasha, Grand Vizier (1757–63)
- Rüstem Pasha, Grand Vizier (1544–53, 1555–61)
- Ahmad Beg
- Ughurlu Muhammad
See also
[edit]- Yabancı Damat, a popular Turkish television series
- Cici Damat, the Turkish title of the French film Le gendarme se marie
- Berat Albayrak, nicknamed "Damat".
References
[edit]- ↑ Pears, Edwin (1916). Forty years in Constantinople; the recollections of Sir Edwin Pears, 1873-1915, with 16 illustrations. New York: D. Appleton and company.