Hasan Pasha of Temeşvar

Hasan Pasha (fl. 1593–94) was the beylerbey of the Temeşvar Eyalet.[1] During the Uprising in Banat (1594), he gained aid from the Grand Vizier Koca Sinan Pasha and the Pasha of Budim, thus turned with an army numbering 20,000 soldiers and attacked Becskerek (Zrenjanin), in the hands of 4,300 rebels, ending in a decisive Ottoman victory.[2] Subsequently, Sinan Pasha took an army of 30,000 soldiers which suppressed the badly armed Serbs.[3]

Not to be confused with Telli Hasan Pasha.

References
  1. Chronica: Annual of the Institute of History, University of Szeged. Institute of History, University of Szeged. 2001. In the letter of Hasan Pasha (beglerbeg of Temesvar) to Istvan Bathori (4 September 1593) the voivodate of Kassa was offered
  2. Karlovačka mitropolija (1910). Srpska pravoslavna mitropolija karlovačka: po podacima od 1905. Saborski odbor. p. 45.
  3. Cerović, Ljubivoje (1997). "Srbi u Rumuniji od ranog srednjeg veka do današnjeg vremena". Projekat Rastko. Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Oslobodilački pokreti u vreme Turaka
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