Hüseyin Pasha Boljanić

Husein Paša Boljanić[a] (Turkish: Bodur Husein Paşa, "the Short"; died 1595) was an Ottoman statesman and government official who served many high-level positions in the Ottoman Empire, including governorship of Bosnia (1594–95), of Damascus (1582–83), of Diyarbekir, of Budin, of Aleppo, of Van, of Anatolia, and of Egypt (1573–74).

Husein was born in the village of Boljanići close to the town of Pljevlja at the time part of the Sanjak of Herzegovina (now in Montenegro).

[2] Sinan married the sister of Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and rose in the state hierarchy, becoming sanjak-bey of Bosnia in 1562.

[5][6] Succeeding Koca Sinan Pasha as the governor of Egypt and only holding the office for around a year, he was described by a European source as "affectionate to men of learning, of a mild and modest disposition, and highly averse to all cruelty.

"; however, such qualities were anachronistic for that time, as tensions in Egypt between the governor, the sipahis of the army, and the local Mamluks were rising; the same source recounts that robberies and bandits ran abound during his term.