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Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

Gâzi Oruç Bey of Marınca

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 371 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Merzifon’un Marınca Köyü’nden Alî oğludur. Sipâhî ve Köprülü Mehmed Paşa’nın yoldaşı ve kethüdâsı oldu. 1058’de paşanın Anadolu Beylerbeyliği’nde kethüdâsı görünüp sonra vefât etdi. Mahdûmu sadr-ı esbak Kara Mustafa Paşa’dır. Diğer mahdûmu Ali Ağa’dır. Diğeri de Hasan Ağa’dır.

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In Modern English

He was the son of Alî, from the village of Marınca in Merzifon. He became a sipahi, and a companion and kethüda (steward) of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. In 1058 [1648-49] he was seen as the Pasha's kethüda during his Anatolian Beylerbeylik, and then he died. His son is the former grand vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha. His other son is Ali Ağa. Another is Hasan Ağa.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • sipâhî: a mounted soldier holding a timar
  • yoldaş: companion, a fellow traveller on the same road
  • kethüdâ: steward, an official who manages the affairs of a senior man
  • Beylerbeyliği: the governorship at the head of a province
  • mahdûm: son
  • sadr-ı esbak: former grand vizier
  • vefât etmek: to die

The Father of Kara Mustafa Pasha

Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha is written to have been born in 1634-35 (1044) in the village of Marınca in Merzifon, a village that today bears the name Karamustafapaşa. According to one account his father was a timar-holding sipahi named Oruç Bey who died in Murad IV's siege of Baghdad; when Mustafa was left an orphan at the age of four, he was brought up, with Köprülü's sons, under the protection of Köprülü Mehmed, a friend of his father who was then sanjak governor of Amasya. In another account he was the son of a sipahi named Derviş, born in 1626-27, and came under Köprülü's protection at the age of eighteen.

These accounts differ from Hüsameddin's. The title of the entry names the man Oruç Bey, and the name is the same as in the encyclopedia account; but Hüsameddin gives his father's name as Alî and still sees him as Köprülü's kethüda in 1648-49. In the encyclopedia account, by contrast, Oruç Bey died when Mustafa was four, that is, around 1638. Which is right, or whether the two pieces of information belong to the same man or to relatives, could not be determined in this study.

Köprülü Mehmed Pasha and Amasya

Köprülü Mehmed Pasha was born in the village of Rudnik in the sanjak of Berat in Albania, was recruited by the devshirme and brought to Istanbul, and was trained in the Enderun. He became known as Köprülü because he went to the town of Köprü (Vezirköprü), attached to Amasya, and married there. After the killing of Hüsrev Pasha he was for a short time sanjak governor of Amasya; then, as sanjak governor of Çorum, he took part in the Baghdad campaign (1638); in later years he again became sanjak governor of Amasya. In 1647 he became mütesellim of Damascus, and then, on the rebellion of Varvar Ali Pasha, he was appointed beylerbey of Karaman. His grand vizierate lasted from 1656 until his death in 1661. The encyclopedia entry read does not mention an Anatolian Beylerbeylik; Hüsameddin's phrase "Anatolian Beylerbeylik" for 1058 therefore could not be verified. It is possible that the beylerbeylik of Karaman was meant for this period, but this is a guess.

Kara Mustafa Pasha became the son-in-law of Köprülü Mehmed Pasha. Under his father-in-law's grand vizierate he served first as silahdar and then as telhisçi, and took part with him in the Transylvanian campaign. He became grand vizier on 5 November 1676; after the defeat at Vienna in 1683 he was executed on 25 December 1683.

Ali Ağa and Hasan Ağa

No information was found in other sources on Ali Ağa and Hasan Ağa, who are named in the entry.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 371–371. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

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