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.
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]