Iskender Pasha (governor of Ozi)

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

Iskender Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: اسکندر پاشا‎, Turkish: Iskender Paşa; fl. 1620) 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 Cecora, where he was victorious.[1] In 1613–1614 he was the beylerbey of the Bosnia Eyalet.

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