Mehmed Bey Vidajić

Mehmed Bey Vidajić
The Battle of Mišar by Afanasij Scheloumoff
Other nameMehmed-kapetan
BornUnknown
Bosnia Eyalet
Died13–15 August 1806
Mišar, Revolutionary Serbia
AllegianceOttoman Empire
Service yearsfl. 1804–06
Rankkaptan (captain), bey
UnitZvornik
ConflictsFirst Serbian Uprising
RelationsAli-paša Vidajić (nephew)

Mehmed Bey Vidajić, known as Mehmed-kapetan (fl. 1803–d. August 1806), was an Ottoman Bosnian official and kaptan (fortress commander, Serbo-Croatian: kapetan) in Zvornik. He had the honorific bey title. He was active during the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13), in which the Serbs of the Sanjak of Smederevo revolted against the Ottoman Empire and made incursions into Bosnia.

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