Ekmekçioğlu Ahmed Pasha or Ekmekçizade Ahmet Paşa (died 1618), was Defterdar (Grand Treasurer) to Sultan Ahmed I from 1606 to 1613.Robin Wimmel, "Edirne as a Stopover Destination: The Ekmekçioğlu Caravanserai and the Ottoman Road Network", in The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times: Continuities, Disruptions and Reconnections, edited by Birgit Krawietz and Florian Riedler (De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 152-203. He was a native of Edirne, where he built the Tunca Bridge, the Ekmekcioğlu Caravanserai, and a coffee house with a watering station. He also founded a medrese in Istanbul. He is thought to have been a member or sympathiser of the Gülşeniyye order of dervishes.
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