Osman Pazvantoğlu

Pasha

Osman Pazvantoğlu
Pasha; Osman Pazvantoğlu
	19th-century portrait
Born	1758; Vidin, Sanjak of Vidin, Ottoman Empire
Died	January 27, 1807; Vidin, Sanjak of Vidin, Ottoman Empire
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire (1788–1793, 1799, 1805–1807); Pashalik of Vidin (1794–1807);
Unit	Mercenaries of Nicholas Mavrogenes (before 1787); Rebel Janissaries (1792–);
Conflicts	Revolt against sultan (1790s); First Serbian Uprising;

Osman Pazvantoğlu (1758–27 January 1807) was an Ottoman mercenary, the de facto Vizier of the Sanjak of Vidin after 1794 as a rebel against Ottoman rule, amnestied and recognized in 1799 as pasha by the sultan, continuing rebellion the next year. Initially serving as a mercenary in Wallachia, he wrested the Sanjak of Vidin and ruled in defiance of the Ottoman sultan, and fought other Ottoman pashas and made incursions into the Sanjak of Smederevo, Wallachia, and Serbia during the First Serbian Uprising.