Ćaja-paša
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Imşir Pasha (Serbian: Imšir-paša/Имшир-паша), commonly known as Ćaja-paša (Ћаја-паша, German: Chiaja Pascha[2]), was an assistant (kethüda or kehya in common speech, sr. ćaja) of Sulejman Pasha Skopljak, the Vizier of Belgrade, to whom he was a brother-in-law. He was active in the Belgrade Pashalik during the end of the First Serbian Uprising (1804–1813), Hadži-Prodan's rebellion (1814) and Second Serbian Uprising (1815).
Ćaja-paša was born in the Sanjak of Herzegovina.[3] His sister married Sulejman.[3]
Sulejman and Ćaja-paša suppressed the Hadži-Prodan's rebellion and also took help of vojvoda Miloš Obrenović in making rebels surrender.[4] Ćaja-paša had commanded a force of 800 deli cavalry.[5] Ćaja-paša pursued and captured many whom he had killed at Belgrade in December and January 1815.[6] He had a convoy of captives numbering over 300 of the most notable Serbs that he brought to Belgrade.[7] He made many slaves who he dispersed into harems.[4] People were executed at Kalemegdan.[8] With the outbreak of the second uprising, Ćaja-paša set out from Belgrade for Čačak, but he was defeated and killed in a skirmish by the Morava river.[9]
He was described by a commanding comrade as a better person than his brother-in-law Sulejman and at the time of the Serbian uprisings, he was an old man with a grey beard, of tall stature, and heroic.[3]