Kučuk-Alija
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Kučuk Alija kills Hadži Mustafa Pasha in Belgrade, 15 December 1801 (1802 engraving)
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| Birth name | Alija Đevrlić (Алија Ђеврлић) |
| Born | Rudnik, Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Serbia) |
| Died | 5 August 1804 Ada Kaleh, Ottoman Empire |
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Ottoman Empire (1799–1801) "Dahije" (1801–04) |
| Service/branch | Janissary |
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Kučuk-Alija (Serbian Cyrillic: Кучук-Алија, Turkish: Küçük Ali; fl. 1801 – 5 August 1804) was a janissary, mutesellim of Kragujevac and one of four Dahiyas (leaders of rebel janissarys) who controlled the Sanjak of Smederevo (aka "Belgrade Pashalik") in the period between 15 December 1801 (when he killed Belgrade's vizier Hadži Mustafa Pasha) and the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising in Spring 1804. He was a brother of Sali Aga, a mutesellim of Rudnik Ottoman nahiyah at the beginning of 19th century.
Alija was born in the Rudnik nahija and belonged to the Đevrlić family. He advanced in Ottoman service from regular janissary to the position of mutesellim of Kragujevac. Recruited from the local Muslim population, he was a Yamak.
Together with other renegade janissaries, Alija captured Hadži Mustafa Pasha, the Vizier of Belgrade, in October 1801 and killed him on 15 December 1801 in the Belgrade Fortress. After the murder, Alija became one of four leaders, known as dahije, who ruled the Sanjak of Smederevo (also known as the Belgrade Pashalik), alongside Aganlija, Mula Jusuf and Mehmed-aga Fočić. His wife was the sister of one of his military commanders.
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