Ballaban Badera

Ballaban Badera
Ballaban Badera
Born	Badera, Mat, Albania
Died	Near Krujë, Ottoman Empire
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Service / branch	Ottoman Army
Rank	Pasha
Commands	Sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Ohrid
Battles / wars	Battle of Vaikal ; ; Second Siege of Krujë (1466);

Ballaban Badera (also known as Ballaban Pasha or Ballaban Badheri)^[1] was an Ottoman military officer from Albania. A conscript of the Devshirme child soldier system, he became a Pasha. Ballaban Badera was said to be the first one who climbed the walls of Constantinople during its siege.^[2] He held the position of sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Ohrid in 1464 and 1465.^[3]^[4]

^ Elsie, Robert (20 January 2015). Albanian Folktales and Legends: Selected and Translated from the Albanian. Createspace Independent Pub. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-5076-3130-0.
^ James M. Ludlow: The Captain of the Janizaries
^ Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb; Johannes Hendrik Kramers; Bernard Lewis; Charles Pellat; Joseph Schacht (1954), The Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 4, Leiden: Brill, p. 140, ISBN 978-90-04-14448-4, OCLC 399624, retrieved 24 December 2011, Tursun p.125, cf Critoboulos, 147; emphasize Iskender's "breaking of faith" as the reason for the Ottoman operations against him from 868/1464 onwards. By permitting Venetian troops to garrison Kruje, he created a real threat to the Ottoman forces in Albania. In 1464 and 1465 the neighbouring sanjak begis and especially the governor of Ohrid, Ballaban, launched the swift attacks.
^ İnalcık, Halil (1995), From empire to republic : essays on Ottoman and Turkish social history, Istanbul: Isis Press, p. 88, ISBN 978-975-428-080-7, OCLC 34985150, retrieved 4 January 2012, Balaban Aga, qui a accordé des timar à ses propres soldats dans la Basse- Dibra et dans la Çermeniça, ainsi qu'à son neveu à Mati, doit être ce même Balaban Aga, sancakbeyi d'Ohrid, connu pour ses batailles sanglantes contre Skanderbeg.

[Elsie2015-1] Elsie, Robert (20 January 2015). Albanian Folktales and Legends: Selected and Translated from the Albanian. Createspace Independent Pub. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-5076-3130-0.

[Ludlow-2] James M. Ludlow: The Captain of the Janizaries

[3] Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb; Johannes Hendrik Kramers; Bernard Lewis; Charles Pellat; Joseph Schacht (1954), The Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 4, Leiden: Brill, p. 140, ISBN 978-90-04-14448-4, OCLC 399624, retrieved 24 December 2011, Tursun p.125, cf Critoboulos, 147; emphasize Iskender's "breaking of faith" as the reason for the Ottoman operations against him from 868/1464 onwards. By permitting Venetian troops to garrison Kruje, he created a real threat to the Ottoman forces in Albania. In 1464 and 1465 the neighbouring sanjak begis and especially the governor of Ohrid, Ballaban, launched the swift attacks.

[4] İnalcık, Halil (1995), From empire to republic : essays on Ottoman and Turkish social history, Istanbul: Isis Press, p. 88, ISBN 978-975-428-080-7, OCLC 34985150, retrieved 4 January 2012, Balaban Aga, qui a accordé des timar à ses propres soldats dans la Basse- Dibra et dans la Çermeniça, ainsi qu'à son neveu à Mati, doit être ce même Balaban Aga, sancakbeyi d'Ohrid, connu pour ses batailles sanglantes contre Skanderbeg.

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