'''Garabet Artin Pasha Davoudian''' (also '''Garabed Artin Davoudian''', Dawud'''Davud Pasha''', '''Dawud Pasha'''; {{Lang-ar|قره بت آرتين باشا داوديان}}) was an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Diplomat|career diplomat]] and the first ''[[mutasarrif]]'' of [[Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate|Mount Lebanon]] from 1861 to 1868.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Farah |first=Caesar E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uxkz9D4Ff_sC&dq=Davidian+Lebanon+1861&pg=PA696 |title=The Politics of Interventionism in Ottoman Lebanon, 1830–61 |date=2000 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-86064-056-8 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=A ́goston |first1=Ga ́bor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QjzYdCxumFcC&dq=Dawud+pasha+Lebanon+1861&pg=PA177 |title=Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire |last2=Masters |first2=Bruce Alan |date=2010-05-21 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-1025-7 |language=en}}</ref>
== Early life ==
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Dawud Pasha was the first to hold the office of ''mutasarrif'' (governor) of the newly created, semi-autonomous Ottoman administrative sub-division of [[Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate]] in the aftermath of the [[1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus]].<ref name=":0" />
Before his tenure as governor, he served as a diplomatic attaché in [[Berlin]] and [[Vienna]]. He was raised to the rank of ''[[vizier]]'' and appointed as ''mutasarrif'' in 1861. The appointment was supposed to last for 3 years, but it was prolonged for another 5 years.<ref name=":0" />
The appointment of a foreign ''mutasarrif'' caused widespread resentment in Mount Lebanon, particularly among [[MaronitesMaronite]] [[Feudalism|feudal lords]] who contested their loss of power and influence. One of his major antagonists was [[Youssef Bey Karam]], a local Maronite strongman who mounted a rebellion against the Ottomans from 1866 to 1867.<ref name=":0" />
Despite the animosity of the local population, Dawud Pasha was credited with implementing a fair rule.<ref name=":0" />
