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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · İKİNCİ FASIL

Bâlî Ağa — Mumcu Velizâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 393 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Amasya’da mumcu esnâfının kethüdâsı olan Veli Ağa mahdûmudur. Sipâhî meşâhîrînden Amasya kethüdâyeri, Tokat voyvadası ve Amasya beytülmâl emîni, Gümüş Ma’deni emîni ve kazâsı voyvadası olup 1076 hudûdunda [432] vefât etdi. Mahdûmları mîr-i mîrân Fazlı Paşa ile mevâlîden Mehmed Efendi ve ricâlden Abdülkâdir Ağa’dır. Bunlara Bâlî Oğulları ve tahfîfen Baloğulları dendi.

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In Modern English

He was the son of Veli Ağa, who was steward of the candle-makers' guild in Amasya. He was among the well-known sipahis and became deputy steward of Amasya, voyvoda of Tokat, steward of the treasury of Amasya, steward of the Silver Mine, and voyvoda of its district; he died around 1076 [1665-66]. His sons are the beylerbeyi Fazlı Pasha, Mehmed Efendi of the learned class, and Abdülkâdir Ağa among the statesmen. They were called Bâlî Oğulları, and, in shortened form, Baloğulları.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mumcu esnâfı: the guild of those who make and sell candles
  • kethüdâ: steward, a person who runs the affairs of a community or an administrator
  • kethüdâyeri: deputy steward, the one who acts in the steward's place
  • voyvoda: an official in charge of the revenue and order of a region
  • beytülmâl emîni: the official in charge of the state treasury and ownerless property
  • ma'den: mine
  • mîr-i mîrân: beylerbeyi
  • mevâlî: the learned class, those on the path of judgeship and professorship
  • ricâl: statesmen
  • tahfîfen: by lightening, by shortening

The Silver Mine

The "Silver Mine" of the text is most probably the silver mines around the settlement of Gümüş in Amasya, today attached to Gümüşhacıköy; this is an inference. Gümüş was the district centre until 1891; Hacıköy became the district centre in 1892 and, absorbing Gümüş, the settlement began to be called Gümüşhacıköy. According to some sources, the silver mines in this area brought prosperity to the town in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the Seljuks and Ilkhanids struck coins in the region. This information does not directly explain the seventeenth-century offices Hüsameddin gives; it only helps to locate the mine named.

Bâlî Oğulları

No information was found in the sources read on Veli Ağa, Fazlı Pasha, Mehmed Efendi, Abdülkâdir Ağa, or the family known as "Baloğulları". No document was found either on the stewardship of the candle-makers' guild of Amasya or on the offices of sipahi, deputy steward and treasury steward in Amasya.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 393. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

Other sources

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