Ali-paša Rizvanbegović

Ali-paša Rizvanbegović-Stočević (1783-1851) was administrator of Stolac from 1813 to 1833 and semi-independent ruler (vizier) of Herzegovina from 1833 to 1851.

Life

He was born in Begovina, Stolac in 1783. Because of his large military success, Ottoman sultan gave to Ali-paša the vizier title as a prize and asked him to say which territory he want to rule. Ali-paša then said that he would like that sultan separate Herzegovina from Pashaluk of Bosnia and that he would like to become hereditary vizier of new Pashaluk of Herzegovina. Sultan fulfilled his wish, and in 1833, new vizier of Herzegovina came to Mostar and said in front of the people: "Our honest emperor loves me and therefore he made me a third near himself. He offered to me that I can be a vizier of what ever I want, but I did not wanted to be a vizier of anything but of Herzegovina, separated from the Pashaluk of Bosnia. These are counties of Herzegovina: Prijepolje, Taslidža with Kolašin and Šaranci with Drobnjak, Čajniče, Nevesinje, Nikšić, Ljubinje-Trebinje, Stolac, Počitelj, Blagaj, Mostar, Duvno and half of the county of Konjic which is on this side of Neretva. This was given to me, my children and my kin, and I done this to prevent that some bad pasha rule over Herzegovina. I thought that it is better that I, as native, rule over Herzegovina, instead some alien - nobody could be fiend to his own house. I will judge to everybody by justice..." Ali-paša also said: "From this day, nobody should have need to go to Istambul to see emperor: here is Istambul - Mostar, and here is emperor in Mostar".

ources

*Dr. Lazar Tomanović, Petar Drugi Petrović - Njegoš kao vladalac, Novi Sad - Srbinje, 2004.

ee also

* [http://www.alipasini-izvori.com Alipasini Izvori]
*Pashaluk of Herzegovina
*Herzegovina
*History of Herzegovina
*History of Bosnia and Herzegovina

External links

* [http://www.iis.unsa.ba/prilozi/30/30_prikazi_alipasa1.htm Hamdija Kapidžić, Ali-paša Rizvanbegović i njegovo doba, ANUBiH i Filozofski fakultet u Sarajevu, Sarajevo 2001., str. 190]