Ahmed-Pasha (?–1836) was Ottoman pasha of Kars

Kars Province, Ottoman Empire

Eyalet of Kars was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was .The town of Kars, which had been levelled to the ground by the Timur in 1368, was rebuilt as an Ottoman fortress in 1579 by Lala Mustafa Pasha, and became capital of an eyalet of six sanjaks and also a...

 and Akhaltsikhe

Akhaltsikhe

Akhaltsikhe is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. It is situated on the both banks of a small river Potskhovi, which separates the city to the old city in the north and new in the south. The name of the city translates from Georgian as "new fortress".- History...

. Born to a prominent noble family of Georgian Muslims, he was the son of Selim Pasha of Adjara. In 1815, after Selim Pasha’s revolt was suppressed, Ahmed Pasha fled to Guria. He later returned to Adjara and restored his authority in the region. In 1828–1829, he supported the Ottomans in their war against Russia and was appointed pasha of Akhaltsikhe with orders to conquer Samtskhe-Javakheti. He led an expedition into Samtskhe but failed to seize Akhaltsikhe, where a Russian garrison under General V. Bebutov successfully defended itself. After the war, Ahmed became beglarbeg of Kars in 1829 and then ruled Erzerum in 1836. He commanded the troops in the eastern provinces (vilayets) of the Ottoman empire and died fighting the Kurdish insurgents.