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Husein Gradaščević

1802 - 1834

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Husein Gradaščević (Husein-kapetan) (31 August 1802 – 17 August 1834), also known as Zmaj od Bosne (lit. 'Dragon of Bosnia'), was an Ottoman Bosnian military commander who led an uprising against the Tanzimat, a system of political reforms with aim to modernise the Ottoman Empire. Born into a Bosnian noble family, Gradaščević became the captain of Gradačac in the early 1820s, succeeding his relatives (among whom was his father) in the position. He grew up surrounded by a political climate of turmoil in the western reaches of the Ottoman Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Husein Gradaščević is the 580th most popular military personnel (down from 488th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 35th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Husein Gradaščević ranks 580 out of 2,058. Before him are Bo'orchu, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Seishirō Itagaki, Tamara Bunke, Ibrahim Traoré, and Antonio Tejero. After him are Arthur Arz von Straußenburg, Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Otto von Kotzebue, Ernst Lindemann, and Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1802, Husein Gradaščević ranks 19. Before him are Antoine Jérôme Balard, Alcide d'Orbigny, Pavel Nakhimov, Hermann Goldschmidt, Nikolaus Lenau, and Heinrich Gustav Magnus. After him are Germain Henri Hess, Charlotte Bonaparte, Charles Auguste de Bériot, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Leopold Fitzinger, and Ignacy Domeyko. Among people deceased in 1834, Husein Gradaščević ranks 15. Before him are Alois Senefelder, Fath-Ali Shah Qajar, Karl Ludwig Harding, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, William Carey, and Jacques Balmat. After him are Infanta Maria Francisca of Braganza, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, William Wirt, William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, and Aleksey Arakcheyev.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husein Gradaščević ranks 41 out of 375. Before him are Ban Kulin (1163), Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia (1292), Fikret Abdić (1939), Bakir Izetbegović (1956), Jazzar Pasha (1722), and Momčilo Krajišnik (1945). After him are Mate Boban (1940), David Elazar (1925), Milan Galić (1938), Miroslav Filipović (1915), Mirza Delibašić (1954), and Stjepan Vukčić Kosača (1404).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among military personnels born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Husein Gradaščević ranks 4. Before him are Ratko Mladić (1942), Slobodan Praljak (1945), and Vjekoslav Luburić (1914). After him are David Elazar (1925), Rasim Delić (1949), Zdravko Tolimir (1948), Blagoje Adžić (1932), Stanislav Galić (1943), Atif Dudaković (1954), and Naser Orić (1967).

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