Abdullah Paşa Kölemen - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abdullah Paşa Kölemen (1262-3/1846-1937) was an Ottoman military officer who rose to the rank of Müṣir (field marshal) and also served briefly as Harbiyye Nazırı (minister of war). His date of birth is given as 1268-9/1852 in Askeri Mecmua ("Military Review"), but appears as 1262-3/1846 in the records of the Turkish General Staff (Genelkurmay). He was born in Trabzon, the son of Rüstem Bey, an Egyptian Mamluk cavalry colonel, and he attended the Bursa Askeri İdadisi (Military Preparatory School) and the Mekteb-i