Darwish Pasha, also spelled Dervish Pasha, was the Ottoman beylerbey (governor-general) of Damascus Eyalet from 1571 to 1574. In 1574 he constructed an...

Dervish Pasha could refer to the following Ottoman statesmen: Darwish Pasha (governor of Damascus), governor of Damascus in 1571–1574 Dervish Mehmed Pasha the...

mosque in Damascus, Syria. The mosque was erected in 1574 by the Ottoman governor of Damascus Darwish Pasha. "Jami' Darwish Basha, Damascus, Syria". Archnet...

1770–1771 and Damascus in 1783–1784. He was the son of Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, who was of Georgian origin. Darwish Pasha owed his assignment as Wali of Sidon in...

Khan As'ad Pasha Khan Sulayman Pasha Azm Palace, originally built in 1750 as the residence for the Ottoman governor of Damascus As'ad Pasha al-Azm, housing...

Ahmed Pasha al-Jazzar (Arabic: أحمد باشا الجزّار, c. 1720–30s – 7 May 1804) was the Acre-based Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet from 1776 until his death...

quarter of Bab Tuma (St. Thomas's Gate). Medhat Pasha Souq is also a main market in Damascus and was named after Midhat Pasha, the Ottoman governor of Syria...

the governor of Egypt to Gaza (part of Damascus Eyalet) in 1766, Uthman attempted to drive him out. Uthman managed to have his son, Darwish Pasha, appointed...

Khusrau Pasha I (1563) Lala Mustafa Pasha (1563–1569) Murad Pasha Shaitan (1569) Ali Pasha Lankun (1569–1570) Haji Ahmed Pasha (1570–1571) Darwish Pasha (1571–1574)...

Egyptian army captured Damascus from Uthman Pasha in June, while Zahir and his Metawali allies captured the city of Sidon from Darwish Pasha. However, Abu al-Dhahab...

against Abdullah Pasha. In early 1822, armed confrontations between the forces of the Damascus Eyalet under governor Darwish Pasha and Abdullah's forces...

simultaneously served as governor of Damascus Eyalet between 1810 and 1812. He was a mamluk of his predecessor, Jazzar Pasha. His rule was associated...

Abdullah Pasha al-Azm (fl. 1783–1809) was an Ottoman statesman who served as the governor of the Damascus Eyalet (three separate terms, 1795–1807), Aleppo...

Muhammad Pasha al-Azm (1763–1770) Darwish Pasha al-Kurji (1770–1771) Zahir al-Umar (1771–1775) (de facto) Rajab Pasha (1772) (de jure) Malak Muhammad Pasha (1775)...

Muhammad Pasha al-Azm was the Ottoman governor of Sidon Eyalet (1763–1770) and Damascus Eyalet (1771–72 and 1773–83). He was a member of the prominent...

Damascus, including the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque and the later Darwish Pasha Mosque. The walls of the mosque were built using alternating lines of...

Mustafa Pasha Bustanji (1773) Muhammad Pasha al-Azm (1773–1783) Darwish Pasha al-Kurji (1783–1784) Ahmad Pasha al-Jezzar (1784–1786) Husayn Pasha Battal...

Mount Lebanon. Together with Uthman Pasha and his sons (Darwish Pasha, governor of Sidon and Muhammad Pasha, governor of Tripoli), Emir Yusuf sought to push...

Yusuf Sayfa Pasha (Arabic: يوسف سيفا باشا, romanized: Yūsuf Sayfā Pāsha; c. 1510 – 22 July 1625) was a chieftain and multazim (tax farmer) in the Tripoli...

Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, at Lake Huleh in the eastern Galilee. Most of Uthman Pasha's 10,000-strong army drowned in the...

One of the madrasas, the Darwishiyya Madrasa, was built by the governor Darwish Pasha and endowed specifically for Isma'il and his descendants to teach...

Sidon and Damascus in early June, driving out their governors, Darwish Pasha al-Kurji and Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, respectively, and the Druze army of Yusuf...

Ottoman army general and statesman of ethnic Georgian background. Mahmud Pasha (governor), was an Ottoman statesman from Bosnia Mahmud Shams, known as Ma He...

Iraqi-Moroccan singer Shakira, Colombian singer of Lebanese descent Tiffany Darwish aka Tiffany, American pop singer of Lebanese descent Umm Kulthum (c.1900–1975)...

mid-1820s, the Ottoman wali of Damascus, Darwish Pasha, defeated Emir Bashir Shihab II and proceeded to demolish most of what remained of the Fakhr ad-Din Castle...

of the most notable examples of the traditional Damascene homes is the 18th century Azm Palace, residence of As'ad Pasha al-Azm, the Ottoman governor...

to the advance of Malik-Shah or because the Fatimids were besieging Damascus. In 1087, Aq Sunqur al-Hajib became the Seljuk governor of Aleppo under Sultan...

the Burids, Zengids, and later Ayyubids in Damascus, serving Zengi, Nur ad-Din, and Saladin over a period of almost fifty years. He also served the Fatimid...

petitions by the local bourgeois, the governor of Syria Vilayet Mehmed Rashid Pasha authorized the establishment of the Beirut Municipal Council, the first...

during World War I. At war's end he stationed himself in Damascus as a supporter of the Arab Kingdom of Syria, but following its disestablishment, he moved...