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Osman Pazvantoğlu (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان پازوانتوگلو; 1758 – January 27, 1807 in Vidin) was an Ottoman Bosnian soldier, governor of Vidin after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule.
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.
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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.
When Cengiz Geray returned to the Balkans, he became an ally of Osman Pazvantoğlu, a powerholder in Ottoman Bulgaria. Pazvantoğlu dragged Cengiz Geray to become a co-player in a plan submitted to Napoleon.
- Ali Yaycioglu
Osman Pazvantoğlu of Vidin: Between Old and New. Princeton Papers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. XIII, Princeton University, 2005, 115-161.
The Mosque and Library of Osman Pazvantoğlu were declared a Monument of Culture of National importance and are situated in the Danube Park. They were erected in the end of 18 c. and the beginning of the 19 c. by Pazvantoğlu who had proclaimed independence from the Sultan.
