Dahije
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Dahije beheading a Serb knez (Slaughter of the Knezes). | |
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| Dates of operation | 15 December 1799 — 5-6 August 1804 |
| Headquarters | Belgrade |
| Allies | Osman Pazvantoğlu's janissaries (Pashaluk of Vidin) |
| Opponents | Ottoman Empire Local Serbs |
The Dahije (Serbian Cyrillic: Дахије) or Dahijas were the renegade Janissary officers of the Ottoman sultan who took power in the Sanjak of Smederevo, after murdering the Ottoman Vizier Hadži Mustafa Pasha of Belgrade on 15 December 1801. The four supreme dahije leaders were Kučuk Alija, Aganlija, Mula Jusuf and Mehmed-aga Fočić. Rebels against the Ottoman sultan, they were defeated by the Serbs in the initial phase of the First Serbian Uprising, which is also called "Uprising against the Dahije" (Serbian: Буна против дахија; Buna protiv dahija).