Feriz Beg
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Feriz Mihaloglu beg (bey) |
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| Native name | Feriz Mihajlović |
| Born | 15th century |
| Died | 16th century |
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 Ottoman Empire
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Feriz Beg, Firuz Mihajlović (Mihaloglu),Feris Beg or Firuz Bey was a 15th and 16th-century Ottoman military officer, Sanjak-bey of the Sanjak of Scutari and Sanjak of Bosnia.
From 1495 to 1496, Feriz Beg was Sanjak-bey of the Sanjak of Bosnia. His predecessor Jahja Pasha built a mosque in Sarajevo during his reign in Bosnia (1494–95) but did not provide a water supply to it. According to a legend, he asked his successor, Feriz Beg to do so from Sedrenik to the Jahja Pasha mosque. Feriz Beg did so and also built a public tap in honour of his predecessor.
Feriz Beg held the position of Sanjak-bey of the Sanjak of Scutari from 1496 to 1502.Đurađ Crnojević who controlled the neighboring Principality of Zeta maintained frequent correspondence with other Christian feudal states with the intention of establishing an anti-Ottoman coalition. When his brother Stefan betrayed him to the Ottomans in 1496, Đurađ proposed to accept the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and Feriz Beg if they allowed him to remain as governor in Zeta. Feriz Beg refused this proposal and invited Đurađ to either come to Scutari to clarify his anti-Ottoman activities or to flee Zeta. When Feriz Beg attacked Zeta with strong forces in 1496 Đurađ was forced to flee to Venice. In 1497, Feriz Beg captured Grbalj and put Zeta under his effective military control, although it was still part of the Zeta governed by Stefan Crnojević. In 1499, Feriz Beg formally annexed Zeta to the territory of Sanjak of Scutari, after he became suspicious of Stefan because of his connections with Venice. Feriz Beg invited Stefan Crnojević to Skadar where he imprisoned him. It is thought that Stefan probably died in prison since he was never mentioned again in historical sources. In 1499, Feriz Beg organized raids of the territory around Durazzo. It was poorly defended and its population would have surrendered if Feriz had brought more forces. During the same year Feriz Beg joined Isa Pasha and raided the inland of Dalmatia. In 1501, Feriz Beg captured Durazzo. After the Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503), Feriz Beg became the Ottoman representative for the region of Cattaro.
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