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Gazi Husrev beg

1480 – 1541

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Ottoman military leader and Governor (Sandžak-beg) of Bosnia (1521-1541) in the Ottoman period. Gazi Husrev-beg was born in 1480 in Serres (today's Greece), in a respected Ottoman family. His father was a Bosnian and high-ranking court official Ferhat-beg and his mother was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Bayazit II. Husrev-bey earned the knightly title of Hero (Gazi) because of his military leadership during the Ottoman conquest of Belgrade in 1521. In the same year (1521), Sultan Sulejman I the Magnificent awarded Gazi Husrev-beg with the title of Governor of Bosnia. During his 20 years of ruling Bosnia, Gazi Husrev-beg laid the foundations of today's Bosnian capital Sarajevo, which in his time became the largest city in the European part of the Ottoman Empire after Istanbul. Many mosques, Franciscan monasteries, and Orthodox churches were built in Sarajevo during this time. Gazi Husrev-beg died in 1541 and was buried in the mausoleum of the Gazi Husrev Bey mosque.