Hafuz Pasha Explained

Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency
Hafuz Pasha
Office:vali (governor) of Üsküb (Skopje)[1]
Birth Date:February 9, 1826
Birth Place:Macedonia, Ottoman Empire (modern North Macedonia)
Death Date:May 14, 1904 (age 78)
Death Place:Istanbul, Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey)
Rank:brigadier-general
Battles:April Uprising of 1876Kumanovo uprising
Nationality:Albanian-Ottoman

Hafiz or Hafuz Pasha (Hafuz Pasha, Macedonian: Хафуз-паша/Hafuz-paša or Hafus-paša; fl. 1826 - 1904) was an Albanian Ottoman official and vali (governor) of Üsküb (Skopje). In the 1870s, he had the rank of brigadier-general. Under his command, Ottoman troops and bashibazouks suppressed the April Uprising in 1876, and the Kumanovo Uprising in 1878.

Military career

He led a brigade that suppressed the April Uprising.[2] Under his command, 212 of 223 houses in Rakovitsa were burnt down, with 36 inhabitants killed; 26 of 125 houses in Popintsa were burnt down, with 66 inhabitants killed;[3] 60 of 100 houses in Bania were burnt down, with 13 inhabitants killed; 80 of 120 houses, a church and the school in Metchka were burnt down.[4]

On May 20, 1878, he led the brigade that suppressed the four-month-long Kumanovo Uprising.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Shaban Sinani. H. Erkan Fıratlı. Tayfun Atmaca. Fermanlar: "tarihi hoşgörüyle yazmak--". 225. 2005. Arberia. 978-99927-915-5-4.
  2. Book: Konstantin Dimitrov Kosev. The April 1876 Uprising. 1976. 37. Sofia Press.
  3. Book: Nikola V. Mikhov. Naselenieto na Turt͡s͡ii͡a͡ i Bŭlgarii͡a͡ pri͡e͡z XVIII i XIX vekovete: bibliografisko-statistichni izsli͡e͡dvanii͡a͡.. 1915. Tsarska pridvorna pechatnit͡sa.
  4. Book: Congressional Serial Set. 1877. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  5. Book: Institut za savremenu istoriju. 2007. Gerila na Balkanu. Institute for Disarmament and Peace Studies. 86. Tokyo. Serbian.