Deli Hasan (died 1605) was an Ottoman military commander who after leading a rebellion in

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became governor of

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and then of Temeşvar. After the death of his brother, a leading figure in the

Celali rebellions The Celali rebellions () were a series of rebellions in Anatolia of irregular troops led by bandit chiefs and provincial officials known as ''celalî'', ''celâli'', or ''jelālī'', against the authority of the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th and ...

, Deli Hasan took command of a group of rebels, soon numbered in the thousands, and established his power in

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. He looted

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and exacted tribute from

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. His success led to the Ottoman court bribing him back to loyalty with the rank of

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and appointment as governor in

, where his followers were employed in the service of the state. He crossed into Europe on 2 April 1603, with an army numbering 10,000 men, and in May was taking part in the unsuccessful siege of Pest. His government in Bosnia was short and turbulent. In 1604 he was transferred to Temeşvar. The following year he fled to

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after an attempt on his life, but was imprisoned there and executed.

Mustafa Naima Mustafa Naima (; ''Muṣṭafā Na'īmā''; Aleppo, Ottoman Syria 1655 – 1716) was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote the chronicle known as the ''Tārīḫ-i Na'īmā'' (''Naima's History''). He is often considered to be the f ...

, ''Annals of the Turkish Empire from 1591 to 1659'', translated by Charles Fraser
vol. 1
(London, 1832), p. 315.

References

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