Hadım Süleyman Paşa - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Hathaway, Jane
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Hadim Süleyman (Khādim Süleymān) Paşa (c. 861-954/1457-1547) was an Ottoman admiral and statesman under Sultan Süleyman (Süleymān) I (r. 926-74/1520-66). The sobriquet hadim ( khādim , literally, "servant") indicates that he was a palace eunuch. Most available sources claim that he was Macar ( Mācār , Hungarian), although he would have been enslaved and castrated before the Ottoman absorption of southern Hungary in 948/1541. He may have been captured from forces allied with the Habsburg Empire during the conquests of Mehmed (Meḥmed) II (r. 848-50/1444-