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Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha

Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha was born in the area of modern Mat District, northern Albania in the early 17th century.^[1] He was initially a tarragon salesman (tarhoncu) before joining the Ottoman administration. He served as the GovernorofEgypt before attaining the vezirate. During his brief tenure in the middle of the reign of Sultan Mehmet IV (r. 1648–1687), he attempted to forestall the decline and reform the Ottoman bureaucracy. Tarhoncu Ahmed was the first grand vizier to draft an annual budget in advance of the coming fiscal year. However, his reforms threatened the conservative forces in the Ottoman elite, who secured his execution on 21 March 1653 by spreading the false rumour that he intended to depose the sultan. This effectively ended the attempts at reform for several years.^{[citation needed]}

• List of Ottoman grand viziers
• List of Ottoman governors of Egypt

• Stanford Jay Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, vol. 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280–1808 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), 205–206.

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