Person1822 – 1884

Midhat Pasha

Ottoman reforming statesman and grand vizier who drafted the Ottoman constitution of 1876 (the Midhat constitution)

He made his name with provincial reforms as governor of the Danube Province (1864), building roads, schools and agricultural credit funds, and after serving as governor of Baghdad became grand vizier. In 1876 he and his allies deposed Sultan Abdülaziz, helped Abdulhamid II to the throne and drafted the constitution. But he was exiled the next year, tried in 1881 for the death of Abdülaziz, imprisoned at Taif in Arabia and murdered there in 1884.

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1876 – 1878Ottoman Constitution of 1876 (Midhat Constitution)leader
The Ottoman constitution drafted by the reforming grand vizier Midhat Pasha was proclaimed and a parliament met. But the sultan soon suspended both, using the Russo-Turkish War as a pretext.

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Abdulhamid II1842 – 1918
Ottoman sultan (1876–1909) who granted a constitution, soon suspended it and ruled as an autocrat for thirty years

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Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914
From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance