Jafar Pasha

Jafar Pasha, also Jafar Pasha Frenk (جعفر پاشا, Jafar Pasha, "the European"), was the Ottoman Empire Governor of the city of Tabriz, following the capture of the city by the Ottomans in 1585. He was a "neo-Muslim" European in the service of the Ottoman Empire. The city would remain under Ottoman control for 18 years, until its recovery by the Safavid Empire ruler Shah Abbas in 1603.

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