Alija Gušanac ("Alija from Gusinje"; 1804–05), known in epic poetry as Gušanac-Alija, was an

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Ottoman

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(''krdžalija'') who served the '' Dahije'', the renegade

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who had taken the rule of the

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following a coup. He was from

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, hence his byname. At the start of the Serbian uprising against the Dahije (1804), Gušanac was in

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. He was subsequently appointed commander of Belgrade by the Dahije.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gusanac, Alija People of the First Serbian Uprising Rebels from the Ottoman Empire People from Gusinje Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire 19th-century Albanian people