Hadži Lojo

A quarry worker, transporter for hire, primary madrasa teacher, and bashi-bazouk, Lojo became noted in the city after joining the resistance to Ottoman reforms, and especially when he in 1872 led the opposition to the building of a new Orthodox church.

Shortly before the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, Lojo rallied the Muslim, Orthodox, Jewish and even some Catholic citizens to fight.

Lojo was one of the main leaders of Muslim resistance to the occupation in the city in 1878, along with people such as Mehmed Šemsikadić, Hafiz Kaukčija and Hadži Jamaković.

On 28 July, the opponents of the occupation organized a government in the city and decreed the mobilisation of all Muslim and other citizens capable of military service.

Although he did not actively participate in the rebellion in the city, the Austro-Hungarian government held him accounted as the main organizer, while the other rebel leaders saw him as bothering and of little help, trying to assassinate him on 14 August 1879.