
Hıfzî: Merzifon Divan Poet and Veteran of the War of 93
Hıfzî of Merzifon (1851-1892): the life and ghazal of a poet who travelled far with his father, earned the title "Gazi" in the War of 93 and wrote in divan and folk forms.

Hıfzî of Merzifon (1851-1892): the life and ghazal of a poet who travelled far with his father, earned the title "Gazi" in the War of 93 and wrote in divan and folk forms.

Eyüb Sabrî of Merzifon (1843-1866): friend of Ziya Pasha, host of Nûrî of Tokat, a young poet of both aruz and syllabic verse, with his divan and his poems in the Merzifon Cönkü.

Hicabî Derviş (1938-2013), Alevi-Bektashi minstrel from Alıcık near Merzifon: apprentice of Yanyatan Ali, cem zakir, his early pen names and poetry rooted in tekke tradition.

Ali Divanî, Alevi-Bektashi minstrel born in Küçükçay near Merzifon: the gift inherited from his grandfather Nikabî, Âşık İrfanî's influence, his pen name and his poetry.

Kul Fakir Ali Oymak, Alevi-Bektashi minstrel of Merzifon: his discipleship to Kul Hüseyin, devotion to the Hacı Bektaş çelebis, the Gaziler Ovacığı âşıks and twelve deyiş.

Abdürrahîm-i Rûmî, Zeyniyye sheikh of Merzifon: his years with Zeynüddin el-Hâfî, the favour of Murad II, the dispute over his death date and his one surviving couplet.

Ali Bâkî Gül, Bektashi poet who served as imam in Harız near Merzifon and died there: his life, divan, mevlid and epics, and the sources that differ on where he was born.

İbrâhim Cûdî, born in Merzifon, schooled in Amasya, teacher in Salonica and Istanbul and deputy for Amasya: Hüsameddin's record, his life, his single-copy divan and his poems.

The life and poetry of Ahmed Nedîm, poet of the Tulip Era, and his disputed link with Amasya through his grandfather, a military judge from Merzifon, with details found only in Hüsameddin.

The life and poetry of Gevherî, celebrated minstrel poet of the seventeenth century, and Nihad Çetin's claim linking him to the Gümüş mine and Merzifon, which encyclopedias treat cautiously.

Son of the deputy governor of Amasya, a notable who served as deputy chief of the sayyids, voivode of Merzifon and Sivas purchasing agent, and bore the title kapıcıbaşı.

Scholar from Belvar in the province of Diyarbekir who settled in Merzifon, became its mufti in 1253 [1837-38] and died in 1257 [1841-42].

Mehmed Bey (Ramazanzade Mehmed Çelebi), sanjak bey of Amasya in 960-961 [1553-54] after Prince Mustafa's execution, and the fate of the prince's household.

Hacı Hüseyin Pasha, "Maktulzâde's steward," governor of Amasya from 1727, the fall of Hacı İbrahim Bey, Emir Hacı's inheritance, and the martyrdom at Hamadan.

Teymûr Süleymân Pasha of Merzifon became mutasarrıf of Amasya in 1740; the entry covers banditry, the Fâtımiyye Madrasa and the origin of the Canikli family.

Cevher Mehmed Pasha of Merzifon became mutasarrıf in 1741; the entry shows the burden of the war against Nâdir Shah on the sanjak, from supply depots to Prince Safî's escort.

Cevher Mehmed Pasha's second term at Amasya in 1744 ended in dismissal after he freed, for a large sum, those arrested for the killing of the kadı of Köprü.

Cevher Mehmed Pasha's third term at Amasya from 1748 saw the end of the war-aid embezzlement case and the death of the renowned scholar Yusufefendizade Abdullah Hilmi Efendi.

Cevher Pasha, mutasarrıf of Amasya for barely a month in 1762, was routed by bandits at Kutluca while Sarıbeyzade Mehmed Bey broke the band by winning over Acar Mustafa.

Cevher Mehmed Pasha held Amasya for a fourth and briefest time in 1752-53, until Çankırı's Ebubekir Pasha replaced him after continued complaints.

Ahmed Pasha, son of Tuz Mehmed Pasha of Merzifon, became mutasarrıf in 1767 and fell into Russian captivity within a year, in a record that conflicts with the war's dates.

Sâdık Mehmed Pasha, the "Treasurer's Apprentice" of Merzifon, rose from voivode to vizier and guardian of İbrail in 1770, drawing the jealousy of Canikli Hacı Ali Bey.

Ahmed Pasha, "Çayır Köylü" of Merzifon, governed Amasya from 1624 to investigate and punish the Abaza supporters, with harsh results that led to his transfer to the Iraq campaign.

Governor Ferhad Pasha of Merzifon, the bandits of Taşan Dağı who raided Merzifon in 1667, and Fâzıl Hızır Efendi's return to the muftiship.

Mahmûd Bey of Merzifon as bey of Amasya in 1681, the mufti dispute, and the influence of Mumcuoğlu Seyyid Ahmed Ağa.



Ağar Hâtun, who built a mosque and school in the village of Ganî and endowed them with her property; she died around 1591-92.

Ak Mehmed Ağa, an Amasya bureaucrat who rose in the circle of the Köprülüs to become the grand vizier's steward and later naval arsenal steward and defterdar.

Biography of Ahmed Efendi, a preacher and imam of the Mehmed Pasha Mosque in Amasya who died in 1337 [1918-19], with notes on the office of kürsü şeyhi.

İbrâhim Agha Nûhzâde of Merzifon, voivode of Merzifon and kethüda of Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha, who went to the Hejaz as Surre Emini and died in 1666.

A scholar of Niksar who taught publicly in Amasya and became müderris of the Yörgüç Pasha Madrasa, with notes on two beys named İbrâhim of the Bektemür and Yûsuf Paşazâde families.

A sipahi of Merzifon, son of a judge, who rose to voyvoda and sanjak governor under Kara Mustafa Pasha and died in 1684; with another İbrâhim Bey who died in 1686.

A sipahi's son of Merzifon, follower of Kara Mustafa Pasha, who served as waqf administrator, deputy governor, sanjak governor and beylerbeyi of Maraş and died in 1688.

A scholar of Merzifon, son of Ma'kûl Mehmed Efendi, who taught in Merzifon and Amasya, became müderris of the Hızır Pasha madrasa, and died in 1704.

Four Amasya notables named İbrâhim Ağa, among them Şâtırzâde, a former sipahiler ağası and ayan member, all died in the 1140s.
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