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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Aydın Ağa — Kethüda

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 6, p. 26 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Recep Orhan ÖZEL - Doç. Dr. Metin HAKVERDİOĞLU

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Köprülüdür. 188’inci bölükde mukayyed sipâhî olup Şirvân Muharebâtında nâm kazandı. 998’de sipâhî [51] ocağında çavuş, ba’dehû ocak kethüdâsı oldu. 1007’de ma’zûl olup sonra Amasyalı Goncazâde Hızır Paşa kethüdâsı olarak teayyün etdi. 1021 sâlinden sonra vefât eyledi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Köprü. He was a sipahi registered in the 188th company and won renown in the Shirvan wars. In 998 [1589-90] he became a çavuş in the sipahi corps, and then kethüda (steward) of the corps. In 1007 [1598-99] he was dismissed, and later appeared as the kethüda of Goncazâde Hızır Pasha of Amasya. He died after the year 1021 [1612-13].

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mukayyed: registered, entered in the register
  • sipâhî ocağı: the organization of the kapıkulu mounted soldiers
  • çavuş: a senior-ranking official in the corps who conveyed orders and news and kept order
  • kethüdâ: the assistant, steward, who ran the affairs of a corps or a vizier
  • ma'zûl: dismissed from office
  • teayyün: coming forward, appearing

The Shirvan Wars and the Sipahi Corps

The "Shirvan battles" in the text are the Caucasian front of the Ottoman-Safavid war (1578-1590). The war began in 1578 when Lala Mustafa Pasha defeated the Safavid army at Çıldır and entered Tbilisi, and it turned into a long series of campaigns that also included the Shirvan and Dagestan operations. The years in which Aydın Ağa gained fame are set by these wars; 998 [1589-90] falls in the last years of the war.

There is a study on the kapıkulu sipahis settled in Amasya for the first half of the seventeenth century; however, no detail on Aydın Ağa could be read there. His master Goncazâde Hızır Pasha is a person mentioned among the viziers from Amasya. Which unit the expression "the 188th company" indicates could not be determined. 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. 26–26. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

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