context: The year of birth of Ahmed Pasha is not indicated anywhere. According to 1644, his age was from 50 to 60 years (mid fifties), in 1662 - from 70 to 80 (mid seventies) [1], that is, he was born after 1582, but before 1594 year. By origin, Ahmed Pasha was an Abkhaz [2]. He was born in the village of Fyndykly (Galata, Istanbul) [3], in a Muslim family of immigrants from the Caucasus. Ahmed’s father was the security commander at Ozdemiroglu Osman Pasha [4]. Only at the end of the 16th century were children from such families allowed to get an education in Enderun and pursue a career. Prior to this, for many years only Christian children recruited from the devshirme, Albanians and Bosniaks had such an opportunity. Abkhazians living in the Tophan district of Istanbul have a practice in which children were sent to the Caucasus at the age of one or two years. As a teenager, they were returned to Istanbul and presented or sold to high-ranking officials [5]. Thus, these children had the opportunity to get to Enderun. Ahmed Pasha at the age of three was sent to his father’s homeland for primary education and returned to Istanbul at the age of about 15 years [3] [4]. He was presented with his cousin to Ahmed I, who gave him the lakab (nickname) “Melek” (Turkish: Melek - angel) [3]. He received his second nickname because he was fat - “Matak” (Turkish: Matak - buffalo); the third, less commonly used nickname is “Tyrnakchi” (Turkish: Tırnakçı - swindler, swindler) [3].
question: When was Melek Ahmed Pasha born?
answers.text: 1644, his age was from 50 to 60 years