Ottoman Empire and the Bosnian Uprising

Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire. Many of the empire''s ''janissaries'', an elite military stratum of soldiers and nobleman, hailed from this Balkan region. So when Sultan Mehmet II abolished this warrior class in 1826, and this curtailed the regions access to influence in Constantinople, Bosnia rebelled. Under the leadership of Husein Gradascevic, the ''dragon of Bosnia''...