Smail Agha Čengić

Smail Agha Čengić
Born1780 (1780)
Jelašce, Kalinovik, Bosnia Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died (aged 60)
Mljetičak, Nikšić, Herzegovina Eyalet, modern-day Montenegro
AllegianceOttoman Empire
Service years1809–1840
ConflictsFirst Serbian Uprising (1809–1813)
Bosnian uprising (1831–1832)
Battle of Grahovo (1836)

Smail Agha Čengić (Serbo-Croatian: Smail-aga Čengić; 1780 – 23 September 1840) was an Ottoman Bosnian lord (with the title of aga) and general in the Ottoman Army. In 1831–32, Čengić was one of the Ottoman generals who fought against Husein Gradaščević, who was leading a rebellion in Bosnia against the central Ottoman government.

Čengić was killed by Novica Cerović as revenge for killing the younger brother of the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. His death inspired the 1846 epic poem The Death of Smail-aga Čengić by Ivan Mažuranić.

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