Dahije

Dahije
Dahije
Dahije beheading a Serb knez (Slaughter of the Knezes).
Leaders	Kučuk-Alija Aganlija Mula Jusuf Mehmed-aga Fočić
Dates of operation	15 December 1799 — 5–6 August 1804
Headquarters	Belgrade
Allies	Osman Pazvantoğlu's Janissaries (Pashaluk of Vidin)
Opponents	Ottoman Empire Local Serbs
Preceded by Janissary corps of the Sanjak of Smederevo

The Dahije (Serbian Cyrillic: Дахије) or Dahijas were the renegade Janissary officers who took power in the Sanjak of Smederevo (also known as the Belgrade Pashaluk), after murdering the Vizier Hadži Mustafa Pasha of Belgrade on 15 December 1801. The four supreme dahije leaders were Kučuk Alija, Aganlija, Mula Jusuf and Mehmed-aga Fočić. Rebels against the Ottoman sultan, they were defeated by the Serbs in the initial phase of the First Serbian Uprising, which is also called "Uprising against the Dahije" (Буна против дахија / Buna protiv dahija).