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Updated: May 19, 2025

Sultan Selim in, terrified of the growing power of these Jannisaries, sided with his Christian subjects, sent troops against them, and forcibly evicted them from Belgrade. A Turkish Pasha, Hadji Mustafa, was appointed as Governor, whose rule was so just and beneficent that the land was soon at peace and the grateful Serbs called him "Srpska Majka" the Serbian Mother.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle