page_title: Osman Pazvantoğlu
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Osman Pazvantoğlu / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of the building of the library at the Osman Pazvantoğlu's Mosque in Vidin, Bulgaria Български: Фотография на сградата на библиотеката към джамията на Осман Пазвантоглу във Видин, България Русский: Фотография здания библиотеки к мечети Османа Пазвантоглу в Видине, Болгария
context_page_description: Osman Pazvantoğlu was an Ottoman soldier, a governor of the Vidin district after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule.
  He is also remembered as the friend of Rigas Feraios, a Greek revolutionary poet, whom he tried to rescue from the Ottoman authorities in Belgrade.
context_section_description: In Vidin, Bulgaria, the capital of Pazvantoğlu's domain, there are several landmarks built during his rule that still stand today. These include the military facility Krastata Kazarma (from Bulgarian: Cross-shaped Barracks), built in 1801, and a mosque (1801-1802) with a library building (1802–1803), dedicated to the pasha's father. All of them are classed as monuments of culture.
  The mosque-library compound is thought to have also included a madrasah (Islamic school) and a small Muslim cloister, both of which have not survived until today.
caption: The library next to the mosque
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