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Osman Pazvantoğlu (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان پازوانتوگلو; 1758 – January 27, 1807 in Vidin) was an Ottoman soldier, governor of Vidin after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule. He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to rescue from the Ottoman authorities in Belgrade.
Osman Pazvantoğlu (1758 – January 27, 1807 in Vidin) was an Ottoman soldier, governor of Vidin after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule.
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His father was Vlach from Bosnia, and his mother a Romanian from Diu/Vidin (a smaler Romanian tsarat, vasal to the Ottoman Empire).[citation needed] His grandfather was originally from the Eyalet of Bosnia, and part of the guards of the city of Sofia, hence Osman's name: pasban-oğlu, "son of the guard". Initially a mercenary in service to the Walla...
In Vidin, Bulgaria, the capital of Pazvantoğlu's domain, there are several landmarks built during his rule that still stand today. These include a mosque (built in 1801-1802) and a library (1802–1803) dedicated to the pasha's father. Both are classed as monuments of culture. The complex is also thought to have also included a madrasah(Islamic schoo...
Ștefan Ionescu, Bucureștii în vremea fanarioților("Bucharest in the Time of the Phanariotes"), Editura Dacia, Cluj, 1974Osman Pazvantoğlu (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان پازوانتوگلو; 1758 – January 27, 1807 in Vidin) was an Ottoman soldier, governor of Vidin after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule. He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to rescue from the Ottoman authorities in Belgrade.
Ottoman leader. Also known as: Pasvanoğlu of Vidin. Learn about this topic in these articles: independence of aʿyān. In ʿayn. …of Jannina (now in Greece), Pasvanoğlu of Vidin (now in Bulgaria), and İsmail Bey of Seres (now Sérrai, Greece) maintained their own private armies, levied taxes, and dispensed justice.
osman pazvantoĞlu of vidin: between old and new. In War and Peace in Rumeli: 15th to Beginning of 19th Century (pp. 11-50). Piscataway, NJ, USA: Gorgias Press.
Osman Pazvantoğlu (1758 – January 27, 1807 in Vidin) was an Ottoman soldier, governor of Vidin after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule. He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to rescue from the Ottoman authorities in Belgrade.
