Ajaz-beg
Ajas Pasha
Bosnian sanjak-bey, founder of Visoko
Ajas Pasha (? - Anatolia, 1486) was a Bosnian sanjak-bey and later pasha in Ottoman service.[1]
Ajas-bey | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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]
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.
- "Ajas-paša - Hrvatska enciklopedija". www.enciklopedija.hr (in Croatian). Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- 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.
- "Ajas-paša - Proleksis enciklopedija". proleksis.lzmk.hr. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- Šabanović, „Dvije najstarije vakufname u Bosni“, 35.
- Vakufnama Isa-bega Ishakovića (1462.) Vakufnama Ajas-bega (1477.) Vakufnama Hadži-Mustafe Čekrekčije (1526.)