Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · BİRİNCİ BÂB · ONUNCU FASIL · AMASYA TÂRÎHİ'NDEN ÜÇÜNCÜ DEVRE BAKİYYESİ
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Remainder of Volume 4, p. 648 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Mehmet ARSLAN
Cân Arslan Paşazâde'dir. 1156 zilka'desinin on beşinde Amasya mutasarrıfı olup kethüdâsı Mehmed Ağa'yı Amasya mütesellimi olarak gönderdi. Bir gün sonra müftü Ahmed Efendi azl ile Şeyh Mustafâ Efendi yine Amasya müftüsü oldu.
1157 muharrem gurresinde Müftüzâde Abdulbâkî Efendi Amasya nâ'ibi, Vâsî Çelebizâde Mahmûd Efendi nakîb oldu. Saferde Fazlıoğlu Hacı Alî Efendi şehir kethüdâsı, rebî'ulâhirde Amasya sancağı sâbık Tiflis vâlîsi vezîr İshâk Paşa'ya verildi. [72]
He was a son of Can Arslan Pasha. On the fifteenth of Zilkade 1156 [1743] he became mutasarrıf of Amasya and sent his kethüda, Mehmed Ağa, as mütesellim of Amasya. A day later the mufti Ahmed Efendi was dismissed and Şeyh Mustafa Efendi became mufti of Amasya again.
On the first day of Muharrem 1157 [1744], Müftüzade Abdülbaki Efendi became naib of Amasya (deputy of the kadı) and Vâsî Çelebizade Mahmud Efendi became naqib. In Safer, Fazlıoğlu Hacı Ali Efendi became city kethüda. In Rebiülahir the sanjak of Amasya was given to the vizier İshak Pasha, former governor of Tiflis.
Hüsameddin records that Selim Pasha stayed in Amasya only some four months, and that during this time he did not come to the sanjak but sent his kethüda. Why the pasha did not come is understood from archival documents. At the head of the 1744 list of the beylerbeyis and sanjak beys placed under the orders of the serasker of Kars, Hacı Ahmed Pasha, before Nâdir Shah's siege of Kars, stands "Vizier Selim Pasha, mutasarrıf of the sanjaks of Kangırı and Amasya," and he is asked to join the army with five hundred soldiers. So Selim Pasha was holding Amasya together with Kangırı (Çankırı), but was carrying on his duty on the eastern front with the revenues of these sanjaks.
In accounts of Nâdir Shah's siege of Kars, which lasted seventy-three days from 29 July to 9 October 1744, the name "Selim Pasha, governor of Trabzon" appears, defending the Behrampaşa Gate of the fortress at the head of the soldiers of Ankara, Nevşehir, Niğde and Kütahya. While the records say that Selim Pasha was governor of Trabzon at this date, the archival list shows İshak Pasha as governor of Trabzon in the same year; it is possible that these two names changed places within the year, but this is not certain. Selim Pasha's career continued in the east after this. In an order dated 24 November 1745 he is addressed as "Selim Pasha, governor of Sivas," and it is requested that the salary and provision expenses of the gunners in the fortresses of Erzurum, Kars and Taman be met from the revenues of the province of Sivas.
No information was found in other sources about the attribution "Can Arslan Paşazade" that Hüsameddin gives, that is, about the pasha's father.
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