Sinan-paša Sijerčić | |
Birth Date: | second half of the 18th century |
Death Cause: | Killed by Luka Lazarević in battle |
Birth Place: | Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire |
Death Place: | Mišar, Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman Empire (modern Serbia) |
Rank: | Pasha, mütesellim |
Relations: | Radoslav (Grandfather) |
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 Serb family, the Šijernić.[4] [5] He helped reconstruct the Serbian Orthodox Herzog's Church in Goražde, where his grandfather Radoslav had been buried.