Ayas Pasha of Bosnia

Ajas-bey Pasha
Ajaz-beg
Ajas Pasha
Sanjak-bey of Bosnia
In office 1470–1474
Monarch	Mehmed II
Preceded by	Isa-beg Isaković
Succeeded by	Sinan-beg
In office 1477–1478
Monarch	Mehmed II
Preceded by	Bali-beg Malkočević
Succeeded by	Skender Pasha
In office 1483–1484
Monarch	Bayezid II
Preceded by	Jahja-beg
Succeeded by	Mehmed-beg Ishaković
Sanjak-bey of Herzegovina
In office 1478–1480
In office 1481–1483
Monarch	Bayezid II
Personal details
Born	?
Died	1486 Visoko, Ottoman Empire
Occupation	Governor
Military service
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Rank	Pasha

Ajas Pasha (? - Anatolia, 1486) was a Bosnian sanjak-bey and later pasha in Ottoman service.[1]

Career

He was sanjak-bey of Bosnia, referred to as the Lord of the King's land, from 1470 to 1475, 1477 to 1478 and in 1483, and ruled as sanjak-bey of Herzegovina, also referred to as Herzegovina's Krajisnik or Duke of the Herzeg's land, from 1478 to 1480 and 1481 to 1483. In 1472 he raided the Croatian Littoral, Istria and Friuli regions.[1] In November 1481 he besieged Herceg Novi, capturing the city the same year December 14th after Duke Vlatko Hercegović gave up defending it and agreed to surrender.[2] For this Ajas was awarded the title of pasha.[3]

Achievements

He played a key role in the development of Visoko from a Bosnian medieval type of town[4] to an Ottoman styled urban organization. He legalized his vakf in 1477 hammam, shops, mekteb, water supply system, bridge on river Bosna, shadirvan, medrese and Nakshbandi tekija[5] which he built in Visoko. He personally commissioned the construction of all these structures and buildings.

See also

• List of Ottoman governors of Bosnia

References

1. "Ajas-paša - Hrvatska enciklopedija". www.enciklopedija.hr (in Croatian). Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
2. Ćirković, Sima M. (1964). "Chepter 7: Slom Bosanske države; Part 3: Pad Bosne". Istorija srednjovekovne bosanske države (in Serbian). Srpska književna zadruga. pp. 340, 341. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
3. "Ajas-paša - Proleksis enciklopedija". proleksis.lzmk.hr. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
4. Šabanović, „Dvije najstarije vakufname u Bosni“, 35.
5. Vakufnama Isa-bega Ishakovića (1462.) Vakufnama Ajas-bega (1477.) Vakufnama Hadži-Mustafe Čekrekčije (1526.)