Ćaja-paša
Ćaja-paša | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Imşir |
| Other name | Ibšir[1] |
| Nickname | Ćaja-paša[1] |
| Born | 17XX |
| Died | 1815 |
| Allegiance | Ottoman Empire |
| Rank | kethüda, mirmiran[1] |
| Conflicts | |
Imşir Pasha (Serbian: Imšir-paša/Имшир-паша), commonly known as Ćaja-paša (Ћаја-паша, German: Chiaja Pascha[2]), was an assistant (kethüda or kehya in common speech, sr. ćaja) of Sulejman Pasha Skopljak, the Vizier of Belgrade, to whom he was a brother-in-law. He was active in the Belgrade Pashalik during the end of the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813), Hadži-Prodan's rebellion (1814) and Second Serbian Uprising (1815).
Ćaja-paša was born in the Sanjak of Herzegovina.[3] His sister married Sulejman.[3]
Sulejman and Ćaja-paša suppressed the Hadži-Prodan's rebellion and also took help of vojvoda Miloš Obrenović in making rebels surrender.[4] Ćaja-paša had commanded a force of 800 deli cavalry.[5] Ćaja-paša pursued and captured many whom he had killed at Belgrade in December and January 1815.[6] He had a convoy of captives numbering over 300 of the most notable Serbs that he brought to Belgrade.[7] He made many slaves who he dispersed into harems.[4] People were executed at Kalemegdan.[8] With the outbreak of the second uprising, Ćaja-paša set out from Belgrade for Čačak, but he was defeated and killed in a skirmish by the Morava river.[9]
He was described by a commanding comrade as a better person than his brother-in-law Sulejman and at the time of the Serbian uprisings, he was an old man with a grey beard, of tall stature, and heroic.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Protić 1891, p. 10.
- ^ Gavrilović 1987, p. 128.
- ^ a b c Novaković 1893, p. 50.
- ^ a b Nenadović 1884, p. 175.
- ^ Nenadović 1884, p. 288.
- ^ Bojović 1974, p. 89.
- ^ Nenadović 1884, p. 696.
- ^ Nenadović 1884, p. 731.
- ^ Nenadović 1884, pp. 227, 693.
Sources
- Bojović, Radivoje D. (1974). "Битка на Чачку 1815.године" (PDF). Зборник радова народног музеја. V. Чачак: Народни музеј: 87–112.
- Gavrilović, Slavko (1987). "Грађа о Хаџи-Продановој буни 1814. године" [Material about Hadži-Prodan's rebellion]. Мешовита грађа [Miscellanea]. 16. Историјски институт, Просвета, Београд: 127–168.
- Nenadović, Konstantin N. (1884). Живот и дела великог Ђорђа Петровића Кара-Ђорђа. Vol. II (1 ed.). Vienna: У Штампарији Јована Н. Вернаја. pp. 120–122, 175, 214, 252, 256, 277, 288, 465, 644–645, 695, 705–708, 714, 726 – via Google Books.
- Novaković, Stojan, ed. (1893). "Iz memoara Ibrahim-manzur-efendije: O nekim događajima u Bosni i Srbiji iz 1813 i 1814 godine". Spomenik. XXII. Srpska kraljevska akademija.
- Protić, Kosta (1891). "Ратни догађаји из другог српског устанка, год. 1815". Годишњица Николе Чупића. XXXI. Državna štamparija: 1–104 – via Google Books.