AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Aydın Ağa — Habîbzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 27 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Şehir kethüdâsı el-Hâc Mehmed Ağa bin Habîb Ağa’nın oğludur. Bu da sipâhîlerden olup Amasya kethüdâyeri, Tokat voyvadası ve Amasya beytü’l-mâl emîni oldu. Sonra Amasyalı Kapıcızâde el-Hâc Ahmed Paşa’ya bostancıbaşılığında intisâb edib Kaptan-ı Deryâlığında [54] kethüdâsı oldu. Paşanın azl ve i’dâmında menkûben Amasya’ya gelip 1131 sâlinden sonra vefât etdi.

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In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of the city steward el-Hâc Mehmed Ağa, who in turn was the son of Habîb Ağa. He too was among the sipahis and became kethüdâyeri of Amasya, voyvoda of Tokat and treasury (beytülmal) steward of Amasya. Later he attached himself to Kapıcızâde el-Hâc Ahmed Pasha of Amasya during the latter's bostancıbaşılık, and became his kethüda during his kaptan-ı deryalık (grand admiralty). When the Pasha was dismissed and executed, he came to Amasya as an exile and died after the year 1131 [1718-19].

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • şehir kethüdâsı: the official who represented the people in the administration of the city and ran its affairs
  • kethüdâyeri: the official who acted in the place of the kethüda in the administration of a military corps
  • voyvoda: the official who collected taxes and maintained order in a district
  • beytülmal emini: the person responsible for the property that passed to the state treasury
  • bostancıbaşı: the head of the bostancı corps, which guarded the palace gardens and the shores of the Bosphorus
  • menkûben: as an exile
  • i'dâm: execution, being put to death

Aydın Ağa's Circle

The name Habîbzâde points to the ancestor of the Aydın family named Habîb; his kinship with Aydın Pasha in entry 62 is not stated in the text. The entry gives, in a short record, how a sipahi of Amasya came out of local posts (kethüdâyeri, voyvoda, treasury steward) to become the kethüda of a statesman from Amasya in Istanbul, and how he fell with him and returned to his homeland in exile.

On Kapıcızâde el-Hâc Ahmed Pasha, mentioned as his master, no information could be found in this research in a list of grand admirals or in any other source. For this reason in which years he served as bostancıbaşı and grand admiral, and when he was executed, could not be determined. No information was found on a kinship between this Pasha and Kapıcızâde Âhî Ahmed Efendi (d. 1008), mentioned in entry 54 of the same book.

No information on Aydın Ağa was found in other sources.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 6, p. 27–27. amasya.bel.tr

Official sources

Other sources

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