Sali Aga

Sali Aga Đevrljić
Sali Aga Đevrljić
Native name	Сали ага Ђеврлић
Nickname(s)	"the Rudnik Bull" (Serbian: Руднички Бик)
Born	Rudnik, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Serbia)
Rank	Janissary; Mutesellim of Rudnik nahiyah;

Sali Aga Đevrlić, also known as the Rudnik Bull,^[1] was a mutesellim (local governor) of the nahiyah (Ottoman administrative district) of Rudnik in what is now Serbia at the beginning of the 19th century. He was a brother of Kučuk Alija, who was a Janissary, a mutesellim and one of four Dahiyas (leaders of rebel Janissaries) who controlled Belgrade Pashaluk from 1802 until the beginning of the First Serbian Uprising.

^ Király, Béla K.; Rothenberg, Gunther Erich (1982). War and Society in East Central Europe: The first Serbian uprising 1804-1813. Brooklyn College Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780930888152. In this connection one Sali aga, kabadayi of the Rudnik nahija, the so-called Rudnik bull, was particularly cruel and obnoxious

[1] Király, Béla K.; Rothenberg, Gunther Erich (1982). War and Society in East Central Europe: The first Serbian uprising 1804-1813. Brooklyn College Press. p. 30. ISBN 9780930888152. In this connection one Sali aga, kabadayi of the Rudnik nahija, the so-called Rudnik bull, was particularly cruel and obnoxious

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