Sinan-paša Sijerčić

Sinan-paša Sijerčić
Born second half of the 19th century
Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died 15 August 1806
Mišar, Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman Empire (modern Serbia)
Allegiance  Ottoman Empire
Rank Pasha, mütesellim

Sinan-paša Sijerčić (died 1806) was an Ottoman Pasha (general) from the Bosnia Eyalet, who governed the area of Goražde and its surroundings, and also Pljevlja as mütesellim.[1] He died while commanding the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Mišar against Serbian revolutionaries in mid-August 1806,[2] being slain by Luka Lazarević.[3] He descended from a Bosnian noble Šijernić family.[4] He helped reconstruct the Serbian Orthodox Herzog's Church in Goražde, where his grandfather Radoslav had been buried.

References

  1. ↑ Godišnjak Društva istoričara Bosne i Hercegovine: Annuaire de la Société historique de Bosnie et Herzégovine. Društvo istoričara Bosne i Hercegovine. 1973. p. 63.
  2. ↑ Vasa Čubrilović (1939). Prvi Srpski ustanak i Bosanski Srbi. Geca Kon. p. 39.
  3. ↑ Vuk Stefanović Karadžić; Milne Holton; Vasa D. Mihailovich (1997). Songs of the Serbian people: from the collections of Vuk Karadžić. University of Pittsburgh Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-8229-3952-8.
  4. ↑ Bosanska vila. Nikola T. Kašiković. 1898. p. 301.