Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL
Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 177–178 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU
Amasyalıdır. Eşrâftan el-Hâc Ramazân Ağa’nın oğludur. Sipâhi meşâhîrinden olup Ankebût Ahmed Paşa’nın Girit serdârlığında kethüdâsı ve Kandiye harbinde fedâkârâne çalışıp cebecibaşı oldu.
1087’de Fâzıl Ahmed Paşa’nın irtihâlinde Amasya’ya avdet edib a’yândan oldu. Çamlıbel vak’asında hizmet edib 1098 sâline doğru vefât etdi. A’yândan bir hânedân idi. Beylerbeyi tarzında hareket ederdi.
He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Hacı Ramazan Ağa, one of the notables. One of the notable sipahis, he became kethüda to Ankebût Ahmed Pasha during the latter's serdarship of Crete and, working selflessly in the war of Candia, rose to the cebecibaşılık.
In 1087 [1676], on the death of Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha, he returned to Amasya and became one of the ayan. He rendered service in the Çamlıbel incident and died toward 1098 [1686-87]. It was a family of the ayan. He behaved like a beylerbeyi.
The serdar in the entry is Ankebût Ahmed Pasha. In Hüsameddin's own book it is written that this pasha became mutasarrıf of the sanjak of Amasya in 1066 [1655-56]. Ahmed Pasha, who also served as beylerbeyi of Buda, was brought to the serdarship of Crete in 1661, and after the conquest of the island he remained there and continued the administration until his death; he died in Chania in 1680. After Candia was taken (6 September 1669), Ankebût Ahmed Pasha was appointed beylerbeyi of the province of Crete. His mosque at Ierapetra was later converted to a church and today is known as the Church of Agios Ioannes; he also had mosques in Candia and Rethymno.
Ramazânzâde Ahmed Ağa's posts in Crete should be read in this framework. The blockade and siege of Candia lasted about twenty-three years. Hüsameddin does not give the years in which Ahmed Ağa was there. He only reports that he returned to Amasya after the death of Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha in 1087. Since Ankebût Ahmed Pasha died in 1680, the relationship between Ahmed Ağa's return to Amasya and the pasha's death is not clear from the text.
The "Çamlıbel incident" is an event on which Hüsameddin gives no details. In the sources we surveyed, it could not be determined what an event known by this name was; for this reason no comment was made on it. The text is content to say that Ahmed Ağa rendered service in this incident.
No information on Ramazânzâde Ahmed Ağa and his father Hacı Ramazan Ağa was found in other sources.
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