Derviš-beg Alić Sarvanović ( sr-cyr, Дервиш-бег Алић Сарвановић), known as Derviš Alić (Дервиш Алић) or Dervish Bey () was the Ottoman governor of the

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from 1592 to at least 1597. He was from

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. In 1592, the

Sanjak of Scutari The Sanjak of Scutari or Sanjak of Shkodra (; ; or ''İşkodra Sancağı'') was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire. It was established after the Ottoman Empire acquired Shkodra after the siege of Shkodra in 1478–9. It was part of th ...

was divided into two parts. Derviš-beg received the sanjak of Montenegro (

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and all on the right side of the

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). He had succeeded in dividing the sanjak after bribing the Vizier. He held the title of

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, and wrote to the ''provveditore'' of Cattaro (Kotor) about his acquisition of the sanjak of Montenegro, and also

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and

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which were under Venetian rule. In 1597 he defeated the Serb rebels led by

Grdan Grdan ( sr-cyr, Грдан; 1596–d. 1612) was the '' vojvoda'' (duke) of the Nikšić '' nahija'', part of the Sanjak of Herzegovina (Ottoman Empire), who led several uprisings against the Ottomans in between 1596 and 1612, alongside Serbian Pa ...

at the

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field. The Montenegrin tribes did not participate in the uprising, only the Brđani. At the time, Sarvanović threatened the Montenegrins through the ''provveditore'' of Kotor.

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