Murat Bey Tardić

Murat Bey Tardić or Murat-beg Tardić (Croatian: Murat-beg Tardić or Murad-beg Tardić; also Amurat Vaivoda[1]) was an Ottoman general.

Biography

Tardić was born to a Croatian family in Šibenik,[2] where he had a brother called Zorzi or Juraj.[3][4] As a young man he became a prisoner of war. After being released he converted to Islam[4] and entered the Ottoman military serving under Gazi Husrev Bey as his vojvoda, where he quickly rose through the ranks.[5][6] As a close associate of Gazi Husrev Bey, he led numerous military conquests against the Croatian army in northern Bosnia and Croatia.[7][8] In 1528, Murat Bey led the conquest of Jajce.[4]

In 1536, Murat Bey Tardić was charged by Suleiman the Magnificent with 8,000 men to lay siege to the Klis Fortress under Petar Kružić.[1] He was successful in the Siege of Klis, occupying it in 1537.[9] For his military services he was put in charge of the Klis Sanjak with the title Beg. As the first Sanjak-Bey of Klis, he built a notable mosque in the town.[5]

He was later made the beg of the Sanjak of Pojega in 1541 or in 1543.[9] He is believed to have died in May 1545.[9] He was buried in one of the two mausoleums (türbe) next to the Gazi Husrev Bey Mosque in Sarajevo.[8][10]

References
  1. Spandouginos, Theodōros (1997). On the Origin of the Ottoman Emperors. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-521-58510-1.
  2. "Most 172 (83) - Abdulah Talundžić: Ostaci ostataka islamske arhitekture u Dalmaciji".
  3. http://ktp.isam.org.tr/pdfdkm/18/dkm182344.pdf%5B%5D
  4. "Murat-begovo turbe". vakuf-gazi.ba. Retrieved 2012-07-02.
  5. Jurin Starčević, Kornelija (17 November 2006). "Islamsko-osmanski gradovi dalmatinskog zaleđa: prilog istraživanju urbanog razvoja u 16. i 17. stoljeću" [Islamic-Ottoman towns in the hinterland of Dalmatia: a contribution to the research of urban development in the 16th and the 17th centuries]. Radovi (in Croatian). 38 (1): 113–154.
  6. Kužić, Krešimir (1 November 2005). "A Contribution to the Biographies of Some of Kačić's Knights and to the Origins of the Population of Their Territories" [A Contribution to the Biographies of Some of Kačić's Knights and to the Origins of the Population of Their Territories]. Radovi Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Zadru (in Croatian) (47): 191–224.
  7. Oruç, Hatice (1 December 2009). "Gazi Hüsrev Bey'in Saraybosna'daki Vakıfları" [Gazi Husrev Beg's Foundations in Sarajevo]. Belleten (in Turkish). 73 (268): 645–670. doi:10.37879/belleten.2009.645. S2CID 113426092.
  8. "Commission to preserve national monuments". Archived from the original on 2014-10-22. Retrieved 2012-06-28.
  9. "Posjedi Zvaničnika I Njihovih Porodica". Archived from the original on 2012-07-07. Retrieved 2012-06-28.
  10. "Oficijelni web portal Gazi Husrev-begovog vakufa u Sarajevu". Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2012-06-28.


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