He was born Nikola Predojević[1][2] into the Predojević clan, of either SerborVlach ethnic background, from Eastern Herzegovina.[3] According to Muvekkit Hadžihuseinović he was born in Lušci Palanka, in the Bosanska Krajina region,[4] however, according to his nickname Hersekli, he was from Herzegovina.[5] The birthplace has been given specifically as Bijela Rudina, Bileća.[6] His family originated from Klobuk.[7]
An Ottoman sultan wrote in a book that he had requested from a notable lord in Herzegovina, named Predojević, that 30 small Serb children (including Predojević's only son Jovan, and his nephew Nikola) to be sent to Ottoman service (see devshirme).[8] The very young Nikola was then taken to Constantinopleasacem-i oğlan (foreign child) and brought up in the Sultan's court, and was forced to convert to Islam, adopting the name Hasan and advancing to the post of çakircibaşa (chief falconer and commander of falconers in the Sultan's court).[9]
[edit]Hasan-paša Predojević led the Ottoman army from the Bosnia Eyalet into the Battle of Sisak in 1593.
He was elevated and appointed Beglerbeg (Governor-General) of the Bosnia Eyalet in 1591. A bellicose and dynamic military leader,[12] Hasan strengthened the army of the Eyalet equipping it with better horses and erecting a bridge at Gradiška with the purpose of easier maneuvering between Bosnia and Slavonia.[13]
Anonymous modern representation of the successful assault on the Habsburg Croatian fortified town of Bihać by the Ejalet-i Bosna Ottoman provincial forces led by Gazi Hasan-paša Predojević, in 1592.
In August 1591, without a declaration of war, Hasan Pasha attacked Habsburg Croatia and reached Sisak, but was repelled after 4 days of fighting. Thomas Erdődy, the Ban of Croatia, launched a counterattack and seized much of the Moslavina region. The same year Hasan Pasha launched another attack, taking the town of Ripač on the Una River. These raids forced the Ban to declare a general uprising to defend the country in late January 1592.[14] These actions of the Ottoman regional forces under Hasan Pasha seem to have been contrary to the interest and policy of the central Ottoman administrationinConstantinople,[15] and due rather to aims of conquest and organized plundering by the war-like Bosniansipahi, although perhaps also under the pretext of putting an end to Uskok (Balkan Habsburg-sided pirates and bandits engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Ottomans) raids into the Eyalet; since the two realms had signed a nine-year peace treaty earlier in 1590. Hasan Pasha's forces of approximately 20,000 janissaries[16] continued to raid the region, with the goal of seizing the strategically important town of Senj and its port, and to eliminate the Uskoci; because all of this, the Holy Roman Emperor sent his ambassador so he would beg that Hasan Pasha be removed from his post, or otherwise an end would be put to the existing truce. The ambassador was told in reply, that it belonged to the Grand Vizier and to Derviš-paša, the Sultan's favourite, to repel their aggressions against the Ottoman Empire; that, the imperial ambassador was told, was a sufficient answer.[17] After learning this, Hasan Pasha felt himself encouraged enough to lead his forces towards Bihać,[18] which was conquered on 19 June 1592[19] after eight days of siege,[20] along with several surrounding forts.[9] Records show that nearly 2,000 people died in defense of the town, and an estimated 800 children were taken for Ottoman servitude (see devshirme),
to be educated in Islam and become janissaries, as Hasan had been himself. After having placed a sufficient garrison in Bihać, he erected two other fortresses in its vicinity; the command of which he conferred to Rustem-beg, who was the leader of the Grand VizierFerhad Pasha's militia.[21] In all, during this two-year campaign, the OttomanBosnian regional invading forces, led by Hasan Pasha, burned to the ground 26 cities throughout the Croatian Frontier and took some 35,000 war captives.[22][23] At the same time, at Predojević's order, OrthodoxSerbs were settled in the『whole region around Bihać』from 1592 to 1593.[24] Predojevic fully relied on Vlachs, recruiting them specially for his army; according to an official report, in 1593, after the fall of Bihać, Vlachs were, at Hasan's order, settled in the areas around Brekovica, Ripač, Ostrvica, and Vrla Draga up to Sokolac,[25] while OrthodoxVlachs from Eastern Herzegovina, and with them some Turkish and Bosnian Muslim aristocraticfeudal landlords as well,[c] were settled in the same areas, in such numbers that they formed a significant population of this region.[26][27][28]
Fethija, a mosque in Bihać, formerly a Roman Catholic church. After the fall of the city to the Ottoman army, and its conversion into capital of its own Sanjak, the old main Roman Catholic church was converted into a mosque and renamed Fethija ("conquered")
At first, Telli Hasan Pasha's troops met little resistance, allowing them to capture numerous Uskoci settlements, where they enslaved or slaughtered the entire population and burned the settlements. His forces soon besieged and captured Senj and exterminated the Uskoci population. For his successes, the Pasha was awarded the title of "Vizier" by the Sultan. However, the following year, Telli Hasan Pasha decided to advance further into Croatia. His force of some twenty-thousand was soundly defeated in his third attempt to conquer Sisak, in the battle that took place near by that fortified town,[29] in which Hasan Pasha is generally reported to have died,[30][31] alongside his brother Džafer Bey (governor of the Sanjak of Pakrac-Cernica), Mehmed Pasha (the sultan's nephew and governor of the Sanjak of Herzegovina), Arpadi Bey (governor of the Sanjak of Klis-Livno),[32][33][34] and many other Turkish and Bosnian MuslimPashas, Beys and Aghas,[35] who accompanied the Vizier in his campaign, having been routed. According to Mustafa Naima: "The brave Hasan Pasha himself also met with his fate, having fallen into the river with one of the bridges which had been cut to prevent the pursuit of the enemy. Such was the result of this terrible day."[36] Indeed, after he had drowned in the river, his dress was taken as a trophy to Ljubljana where it was remade into the sacerdotal coat worn by the bishop during the celebration of the Thanksgiving mass.[37]
His birth name was Nikola Predojević.[2] Chroniclers and historians call him by various names, such as (inSerbo-Croatian): "Gazi Hasan-paša",『Hasan-paša Došen』(this is the name Evliya Çelebi calls him by),[9] "Predojević", "Klobučarić", "Hersekli",『Deli Hasan-paša』and "Derviš Hasan-paša".[38]
As it is reported in the Turali-beg's Vakufname of 1562, some great Turkish and Bosnian Muslim landholding military nobles (Sipahi and Timarli) brought with them OrthodoxVlach population from the Sandžak of Smederevo into Bosnia, in order that they farmed their lands.[39] The Turks often profited greatly from Vlach experience in carrying goods and the skill and speed with which they crossed the mountain regions. For that very reason, aside of serving as auxiliary soldiers in the Ottoman military (see Martolos and Vlach), they always accompanied the Ottoman armies in their expeditions throughout the Balkans, up to the North-West, in whole communities; being intended for populating the newly conquered territories as border military colonies, called katunordžemaat (which were composed of about 20 to 50 houses); at the head of which there was a katunarorprimikur ("headman"). In addition, these Vlachs often served the advancing Ottoman forces by spying in enemy Christian territory. In exchange for their regular duties in the military and in guarding the borders; Ottoman authorities granted them by law certain rights, such as that of being largely exempted of paying any tax but only that of an annual rent of one gold 'ducat' or 'florin' to pay by each one of their households, hence coming to be called as "Florin" or "Ducat Vlachs" (Ottoman Turkish: Filurîci Eflakân).[40] Therefore, it can be similarly concluded that, this time, as Hasan Predojević's armies were advancing throughout the Croatian Frontier, the Spahije who were participating in the Beglerbeg's campaigns in Habsburg Croatia; were, at the same time, to establish themselves as landowning lords in those newly conquered regions, while, at the same time, taking advantage of the Vlach-Serb manpower to work their newly acquired estates.
Предојевић ... Никола [...] Цар турски, Мурат П. допусти Предојевићу да цркву саградити може, а царица (султанија) му пак даде све трошкове, што су за градњу требали. Предојевић на гробници убијеног Николе сагради манастир, те по томе и манастир ...
^Mithad Kozličić (2003). Unsko-sansko područje na starim geografskim kartama. Nacionalna i Univerzitetska Biblioteka Bosne i Hercegovine. ISBN978-9958-500-22-0. To je doista Hasan-paša Predojević. Prema HADŽIHUSEINOVIĆ MUVEKKIT, S. S., 1999, svezak l, str. 183, Hasan- paša je islamizirani Bosanac iz "sela Lušci, u kadiluku Mejdan", tj. iz današnjeg naselja Lušci- Palanka pored Starog Majdana ...
^Srpski etnografski zbornik. Vol. 12. 1909. p. 119. Predoeuich Vlachus comitis Pauli", који је на двадест и пет коња изгонио со из Дубравника.") Осим тога зна се, да је био и један паша који се звао Херцегли Гази Хасан паша Предојевић, за кога неки тврде, да је поријеклом нз Б. Крајине, али из самог атрибута Херцегли види се да је из Херцеговине, као што је то и Башагић тачно опазио ...
^Književnost. 1991. Ријеч је о предању да је израду ове фреске платио Хасан-паша Предојевић, поријеклом с Бијеле Рудине, који је у Планој код Би- леће саградио џамију с четвртастим минаретом, а у Пријевору је за мајку саградио цркву која на ...
У старо вријеме писао је цар турски књигу у Херцеговину некаквом знатном кнезу, званом Предојевићу, да му пошаље тридесет малијех српскијех дјечака, и с њима свога јединог сина Јована. Када је Предојевић то разумио, он је грозно плакао.
^I ratobornoga Hasanpašu Predojevića milovali su Vlasi, a on se podpunoma u njih uzdao, upotrebljavajući ih na svojih vojnah. Po službenom izvještaju zaokupiše Vlasi po Hasanovoj odredbi g. 1593. nakon pada Bišća krajeve oko Brekovice, Ripča, Ostrvice i u Vrloj dragi do Sokolca, množeći se kasnije svakim danom. Ali jedva što se Vlasi po Krajini naseliše, već je mnogim izmedju njih dodijalo tursko gospodstvo. Spominje se, da su već g. 1579. Vlasi stojeći na turskoj službi u Cazinu i Ostrožcu, [1] #page=34
^Dominik Mandić. Hrvati i Srbi: dva stara, razlicita naroda. p. 145.
^Alfred H. Loebl, Das Reitergefecht bei Sissek vom 22. Juni 1593. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung IX (1915): p. 767-787.
^Peter Radics, Die Schlacht bei Sissek, 22. Juni 1593. (Ljubljana: Josef Blasnik, 1861)
^Petar Tomac, La bataille de Sisak (22 juin 1593). Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire, Volumes 51-52.
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