AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Ahmed Ağa-Taşçızâde el-Hâc

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 197 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya sipâhiler meşâhîrinden Mehmed Ağa bin İsmâil Ağa bin Mehmed Ağa’nın oğludur. 1123’de yirmi dokuzuncu bölüğe sipâhi kaydedilerek Tiflis, Revân, muhârebâtında yararlıklar gösterdiğinden mükerreren Amasya kethüdâyeri ve 1141 gurre-i şevvâlinde Amasya sancağı mütesellimi oldu. 1142 senesi saferinde Revân harbine me’mûr olup gitdi. Sonra ser-asker Köprülüzâde Fâzıl Abdullah Paşa ma’iyetine me’mûr oldu. Müşârün-ileyhin şehâdetinde oldukça mühim muvâhazeler gördü. 1151’de tekrar İran harbine me’mûr olup 1158 senesinde vefât etdi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was the son of Mehmed Ağa, one of the leading sipahis of Amasya, who was the son of İsmâil Ağa, who was the son of Mehmed Ağa. In 1123 [1711] he was enrolled as a sipahi in the twenty-ninth bölük. For his usefulness in the Tbilisi and Revan wars he became kethüdâyeri of Amasya many times, and at the start of Şevval 1141 [1729] he became mütesellim of the Amasya sanjak. In Safer 1142 [1729] he was assigned to the Revan war and went. Afterward he served at the side of the seraskier Köprülüzâde Fâzıl Abdullah Pasha. At the time the said Pasha fell as a martyr, he suffered rather serious hardships. In 1151 [1738-39] he was sent again to the Persian war, and he died in 1158 [1745].

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • meşâhîr: the famous, the leading men
  • kethüdâyeri: a post concerning the sipahis of Amasya; its exact definition cannot be understood from the text
  • mütesellim: official who conducts affairs in a sanjak in place of the governor
  • gurre: the first days of the month
  • muvâhaze: being called to account, suffering hardship
  • müşârün-ileyh: the said, the person mentioned

The Campaign of Köprülüzâde Abdullah Pasha

The seraskier in the text, Köprülüzâde Abdullah Pasha, is the son of the grand vizier Köprülü Mustafa Pasha. Abdullah Pasha, who went to Iran at the head of an Ottoman army, suffered a heavy defeat on the banks of the Arpaçay, near Bağavird, to a planned counterattack by a smaller Persian army under Nadir Shah, and died in Muharrem 1148 [June 1735]. The event Hüsameddin mentions with the word "şehâdetinde" is expected to be this battle. It is said that Ahmed Ağa underwent "rather important muvâhazes"; Hüsameddin does not explain what these were, and no other source throwing light on the matter was found.

According to the text, Ahmed Ağa was sent to Iran again in 1151. No information on Taşçızâde Ahmed Ağa himself or on his family was found in other sources.

Bibliography

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