Ayas Pasha of Bosnia

- Anatolia, 1486) was a Bosnian sanjak-bey and later pasha in Ottoman service.

[1] He was sanjak-bey of Bosnia, referred to as the Lord of the King's land, from 1470 to 1475, 1477 to 1478 and in 1483, and ruled as sanjak-bey of Herzegovina, also referred to as Herzegovina's Krajisnik or Duke of the Herzeg's land, from 1478 to 1480 and 1481 to 1483.

[1] In November 1481 he besieged Herceg Novi, capturing the city the same year December 14th after Duke Vlatko Hercegović gave up defending it and agreed to surrender.

[3] He played a key role in the development of Visoko from a Bosnian medieval type of town[4] to an Ottoman styled urban organization.

He legalized his vakf in 1477 hammam, shops, mekteb, water supply system, bridge on river Bosna, shadirvan, medrese and Nakshbandi tekija[5] which he built in Visoko.