Ajas Pasha Explained

Ajas-bey
Native Name:Ajaz-beg
Office1:Sanjak-bey of Bosnia
Term Start1:1470
Term End1:1474
Monarch1:Mehmed II
Predecessor1:Isa-beg Isaković
Successor1:Sinan-beg
Term Start2:1477
Term End2:1478
Monarch2:Mehmed II
Predecessor2:Bali-beg Malkočević
Successor2:Skender Pasha
Term Start3:1483
Term End3:1484
Monarch3:Bayezid II
Predecessor3:Jahja-beg
Successor3:Mehmed-beg Ishaković
Office4:Sanjak-bey of Herzegovina
Term Start4:1478
Term End4:1480
Term Start5:1481
Term End5:1483
Monarch5:Bayezid II
Birth Date:?
Death Date:1486
Death Place:Visoko, Ottoman Empire
Occupation:Governor
Rank:Pasha

Ajas Pasha (? - Anatolia, 1486) was a Bosnian sanjak-bey and later pasha in Ottoman service.[1]

Career

He was sanjak-bey of Bosnia, referred to as the Lord of the King's land, from 1470 to 1475, 1477 to 1478 and in 1483, and ruled as sanjak-bey of Herzegovina, also referred to as Herzegovina's Krajisnik or Duke of the Herzeg's land, from 1478 to 1480 and 1481 to 1483. In 1472 he raided the Croatian Littoral, Istria and Friuli regions. In November 1481 he besieged Herceg Novi, capturing the city the same year December 14th after Duke Vlatko Hercegović gave up defending it and agreed to surrender.[2] For this Ajas was awarded the title of pasha.[3]

Achievements

He played a key role in the development of Visoko from a Bosnian medieval type of town[4] to an Ottoman styled urban organization. He legalized his vakf in 1477 hammam, shops, mekteb, water supply system, bridge on river Bosna, shadirvan, medrese and Nakshbandi tekija[5] which he built in Visoko. He personally commissioned the construction of all these structures and buildings.

See also

References

  1. Web site: Ajas-paša - Hrvatska enciklopedija . www.enciklopedija.hr . Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža . 10 May 2021 . hr.
  2. Book: Ćirković . Sima M. . Sima Ćirković . Istorija srednjovekovne bosanske države . 1964 . Srpska književna zadruga . 340, 341 . 21 March 2021 . sr . Chepter 7: Slom Bosanske države; Part 3: Pad Bosne.
  3. Web site: Ajas-paša - Proleksis enciklopedija. proleksis.lzmk.hr. 2019-05-07.
  4. Šabanović, „Dvije najstarije vakufname u Bosni“, 35.
  5. Vakufnama Isa-bega Ishakovića (1462.) Vakufnama Ajas-bega (1477.) Vakufnama Hadži-Mustafe Čekrekčije (1526.)