AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Aydın Bey — Aydınoğlu

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

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasyalıdır. Ümerâdan Ali Bey bin Aydın Bey’in mahdûmu olup pederinin intikâlinde birâderi Hasan Bey’le Emîr Hasan Alânî, nâm-ı diğer Saz mâlikânesi mutasarrıfı oldu. Ze’ametle hidemât-ı harbiyede yararlıklar gösterip mir-livâ olmuşdu. 920’de İrân harbine gidip Çaldıran Sahrâsında şehîd oldu. Mahdûmu Habîb Çelebi’dir.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was a native of Amasya. He was the son of Ali Bey, son of Aydın Bey, one of the emirs. At his father's death, together with his brother Hasan Bey, he became owner of the Saz property, also known as "Emîr Hasan Alânî." Having shown merit in war service with his zeamet, he had become a mirlivâ (sanjak governor). In 920 [1514] he went to the war in Iran and died as a martyr on the plain of Çaldıran. His son is Habîb Çelebi.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • ze'âmet: a military fief with high income
  • hidemât-ı harbiyye: war services
  • mir-livâ: sanjak governor
  • İrân harbi: the Battle of Çaldıran fought with the Safavids

The Battle of Çaldıran and Amasya

The Battle of Çaldıran, in which Ali Bey fell as a martyr, was fought on 23 August 1514 between Sultan Selim the Grim and the Safavid Shah Ismail, and ended in a decisive Ottoman victory. On the Ottoman side the beylerbeyi of Rumeli and about ten sanjak governors died. Whether Ali Bey, whom Hüsameddin calls "mir-livâ," was among the sanjak governors who died could not be determined. Hüsameddin does not say from which source he took this information.

The battle has a special link with Amasya. After the battle Selim spent the winter of 1514 in Amasya and received Shah Ismail's envoys here.

The "Saz property" in the text and the line of his son Habîb Çelebi open the chain that extends to Aydın Pasha in entry 62: among the descendants of Habîb Çelebi is Aydın Pasha, beylerbeyi of Yemen. No information on Ali Bey himself was found in other sources.

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