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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Arslan Bey — Seydîzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 16 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Köprülüdür. Taşânoğullarından Seydî Ahmed Beyzâde Ali Bey’in oğludur. Pederinin vefâtında “ber-vech-i ocaklık” Taşan dağı mâlikânesi uhdesine tevcîh edildi. 1128 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi. Gâyet zâbıt, müdebbir, zî-nüfûz âdemdi. Taşan dağında bir tek eşkiyâ sekdirmezdi.

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In Modern English

He was from Köprü. He is the son of Seydî Ahmed Beyzâde Ali Bey of the Taşanoğulları. On his father's death the Taşan Dağı mâlikâne was given to him "as a hereditary right (ocaklık)". He died after 1128 [1715-16]. He was a very sound, prudent man whose word carried weight. He would not allow a single bandit to move a foot on Taşan Dağı.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ber-vech-i ocaklık: passing from father to son, as a family right
  • mâlikâne: the leaving of a state revenue to a particular person for life
  • uhde: responsibility, taking something upon oneself
  • tevcîh: granting of a post or revenue
  • zâbıt: one who keeps affairs firm
  • müdebbir: prudent, one who thinks of the outcome of an affair
  • zî-nüfûz: one whose word carries weight
  • sekdirmezdi: would not give a single bandit the chance to move a foot (the meaning is not certain as to the exact equivalent of the word)

Taşan Dağı and the Taşanoğulları

Taşan Dağı is the mountainous region that takes its name from Taşan Bey. Merzifon lies on the southern slopes of this mountain. The Taşanoğulları Beylik was founded in 1350 and ended in 1398, holding the region of Vezirköprü, Havza and Merzifon. Taşan Bey settled on this mountain after 1366, and the beylik continued after him through his sons Bali Ahmed, Ali, Hasan and Şahin Beys. In 1393, when Yıldırım Bayezid defeated Kadı Burhâneddin at Çorum and took Amasya, the Taşanoğulları joined the Ottomans voluntarily.

The Arslan Bey in the text lived at the beginning of the eighteenth century, that is, about three hundred years after the end of the beylik. The family's right over Taşan Dağı continues, according to what Hüsameddin relays, as an ocaklık passing from father to son. How this family connects to the line of Taşan Bey could not be verified in the sources.

Köprü and the Köprülüs

The town of Köprü (Vezirköprü) in the same region is the home town of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha and his son Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha; Fâzıl Ahmed Pasha was born here in 1635-36. Köprülü Mehmed Pasha too stayed for a time in the town of Köprü before becoming grand vizier. For Seydî Ahmed Beyzâde Ali Bey and his son Arslan Bey no record was found other than Hüsameddin.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 16–16. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

Volume 6 contents