Damat

Royal and noble ranks in Iran, Turkey, Caucasus, Pakistan and Afghanistan
	Shah : Emperor
	High King
	King : Sultan, Sultana, Padishah
	Royal Prince : Shahzada (Şehzade), Mirza
	Noble Prince : Sahibzada
	Nobleman: Nawab, Baig, Begzada
	Royal house : Damat
	Governmental : Lala, Agha, Hazinedar

Damat (Turkish: damat, from Persian: داماد (dâmâd) "bridegroom") was an official Ottoman title describing men that entered the imperial House of Osman by means of marriage, literally becoming the bridegroom to the Ottoman sultan and the dynasty. In almost all cases, this occurred when a man married an Ottoman princess.

Among others, the following people were damats to the Ottoman dynasty:

Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1497–98, 1503–06, 1511, 1512–14, 1515–16)
Çorlulu Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1706–10)
Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1713–16)
Bayram Pasha, Grand Vizier (1637–38)
Kara Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1622)
Koca Davud Pasha, Grand Vizier (1482–97)
Ebubekir Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1732–33, 1750–51)
Enver Pasha, Minister of War (1913–18)
Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier (1919, 1920)
Damat Halil Pasha, Grand Vizier (1616–19, 1626–28)
Damat Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1703–04)
Yemişçi Hasan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1601–03)
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (1792–1803)
Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1596, 1596–97, 1599–1601)
Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier (1718–30)
Lütfi Pasha, Grand Vizier (1539–41)
Ibşir Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier (1654–55)
Kara Mustafa Pasha, governor of Egypt (1623, 1624–26)
Damat Mehmed Ali Pasha, Grand Vizier (1852–53)
Öküz Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier (1614–16, 1619)
Gümülcineli Damat Nasuh Pasha, Grand Vizier (1611–14)
Köprülü Numan Pasha, Grand Vizier (1710)
Koca Ragıp Pasha, Grand Vizier (1757–63)
Rüstem Pasha, Grand Vizier (1544–53, 1555–61)

See also