AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · BİRİNCİ BÂB · ONUNCU FASIL · DÖRDÜNCÜ DEVRE-İ TÂRİHİYYE

Hüseyin Bey

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 4, p. 618–619 • Edited by: Doç. Dr. Hicabi GÜLGEN

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

İstanbulludur. Sivas Vâlisi Çetrefilzâde Yûsuf Paşa’nın mahdûmudur. 1109 senesi rebulevvelinin ikinci günü Amasya mutasarrıfı ve Murat Beyzâde el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa da Amasya mütesellimi oldu.

Zenta Muhârebesi’nde şehid olan Amasyalı Abdi Beyzâde Mehmed Paşa’nın birâderi menzilci başı İbrâhim Çelebi şehir kethüdâsı oldu. Selefi Yeğen es-Seyyid el-Hâc Hasan Ağa’nın hesâbâtı rü’yet edilmeye başlandı.

Bu sene martından itibaren Amasya, Çorum ve Sivas sancaklarının sursât, ya’nî ağnâm ta‘dâdı bedelini iltizam eden Amasya a‘yânından Küçük Alizâde Hüseyin Ağa her tarafa ta‘dâd ve cibâyet me’mûrlarını gönderdi. Muhârebede yararlığı görülen Amasyalı Kaya Ali Ağa’ya bâ-rütbe-i mîrimîranî Çankırı ve Hoca Paşazâde Gâzi İbrâhim Bey’e Bozok sancağı verildi.

Rebiülevvelin dokuzunda Küçük Gürcü İsmâil Paşa vezâretle Sivas vâlisi olup rebiülâhirin yirmi dördünde Ali Ağa evkâf-ı Sultâniyye mütevellîsi ve cumâdelûlâ evâilinde Defter Emîni Amasyalı [226] Sefer Ağazâde Yeğen Mehmed Bey Rumeli pâyesiyle İran Sefîri ve on yedisinde Nasûh Ağa yerine Rahtuvan Mehmed Paşa Hüseyin ve Fîruz ağalar evkâfı mütevellîsi oldu.

Cumâdelâhir evâilinde Müftü Abdullah Efendi’nin azline binâen Çorumlu Ahmed Efendi yine Amasya müftüsü oldu. Ba‘dehû Mirlivâ Hüseyin Bey’in tahvîlinden Amasya sancağı Serçeşme Receb Bey’e tevcîh edildi.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Istanbul. He was a son of the Governor of Sivas Çetrefilzâde Yûsuf Pasha. On the second day of Rebiülevvel 1109 [1697] he became mutasarrıf (governor) of Amasya, and Murat Beyzâde el-Hâc Mustafa Ağa became mütesellim (deputy of the sanjak governor) of Amasya.

The brother of Abdî Beyzâde Mehmed Pasha of Amasya, who fell as a martyr in the Battle of Zenta, the head of the post stations (menzilci başı) İbrâhim Çelebi, became city steward (şehir kethüdası). The audit of the accounts of his predecessor Yeğen es-Seyyid el-Hâc Hasan Ağa was begun.

Küçük Alizâde Hüseyin Ağa, one of the notables of Amasya, who from March of this year took in tax-farm the sürsat levy of the sanjaks of Amasya, Çorum and Sivas, that is, the sheep-count levy, sent census and collection officials everywhere. Kaya Ali Ağa of Amasya, whose usefulness had been seen in the war, was given the sanjak of Çankırı with the rank of beylerbeyi, and Hoca Paşazâde Gazi İbrâhim Bey the sanjak of Bozok.

On the ninth of Rebiülevvel Küçük Gürcü İsmâil Pasha became governor of Sivas with a vizierate. On the twenty-fourth of Rebiülâhir Ali Ağa became administrator (mütevelli) of the sultans' waqfs. At the beginning of Cemaziyelevvel the Register Superintendent (Defter Emini) Sefer Ağazâde Yeğen Mehmed Bey of Amasya became envoy to Iran with the Rumeli rank (pâye). On the seventeenth of the month, in place of Nasûh Ağa, Rahtuvan Mehmed Pasha became administrator of the waqfs of the ağas Hüseyin and Fîruz.

At the beginning of Cemaziyelâhir, upon the dismissal of the mufti Abdullah Efendi, Çorumlu Ahmed Efendi again became mufti of Amasya. Later, upon the transfer of the mirliva (sanjak governor) Hüseyin Bey to another place, the sanjak of Amasya was given to the serçeşme Receb Bey.

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • mahdûm: son
  • menzilci başı: the person in charge of the post station where couriers and post horses are changed
  • şehir kethüdâsı: the official who manages the affairs of the city's people and represents them before the state
  • hesâbâtı rü'yet edilmek: to have one's accounts audited
  • sursât: in wartime, a grain obligation taken from the people at a set price or whose price was collected
  • ağnâm ta'dâdı: the counting of sheep
  • iltizâm: the right to undertake and collect a tax revenue for an advance payment
  • cibâyet: tax collection
  • bâ-rütbe-i mîrimîrânî: with the rank of beylerbeyi
  • mütevellî: waqf administrator
  • sefîr: envoy
  • tahvîl: transfer to another post
  • tevcîh: the granting of a post to someone
  • serçeşme: the chief company commander to whom the sekban and levend company commanders in the households of pashas were attached

Rewards After Zenta

This entry describes the days a few days after the Zenta rout. 2 Rebiülevvel 1109, the day Hüseyin Bey was brought to the governorship, corresponds to 18 September 1697 in the Gregorian calendar; Amcazâde Hüseyin Pasha had received the grand vizier's seal a day earlier, on 17 September. One of the new grand vizier's first acts was to reward with sanjaks those whose usefulness had been seen in the disastrous campaign. The sending of Kaya Ali Ağa to Çankırı and Gazi İbrâhim Bey to Bozok is the share of this distribution that fell to the men of Amasya. Kaya Ali Ağa will become governor of Amasya a few years later and, in Hüsameddin's phrase, will be remembered as the ancestor of the "Kayalı Paşazâdes" in Amasya.

Abdî Beyzâde Mehmed Pasha, who fell as a martyr at Zenta, appeared in the previous entry as the former beylerbeyi of Van; the mütesellim Sancızâde Hasan Ağa had been forced to make a heavy payment because he stood surety for his debt. That the pasha's brother was made city steward immediately afterward shows that the family's influence in Amasya continued despite the loss in the war. Nothing more than what Hüsameddin gives on the Çetrefilzâde family was found in other sources; Hüseyin Bey's father Yûsuf Pasha's governorship of Sivas appears only in the Amasya Tarihi.

What Sürsat Meant

Hüsameddin explains sürsat as "that is, the sheep-count levy." Present-day research keeps these two obligations separate. According to Hasan Arslan's study on the sanjak of Aintab in the seventeenth century, sürsat was an obligation demanded in extraordinary war situations that could not be counted a full tax: products such as barley, flour or bread, sheep, clarified butter, honey, firewood and straw, whose amount and price were set by the center, were carried by the people to designated stages and sold there to the soldiers for coin. The same study notes that the people met this obligation mostly in kind in eastern campaigns and in cash, that is, by paying a levy, in campaigns toward the west. Since the need of 1697-98 was for the Austrian front, it fits this picture that what was demanded from Amasya, Çorum and Sivas was a levy.

The ağnam fee (sheep tax), on the other hand, was a separate tax: it was taken after sheep had given birth, generally in April or May, and a ewe with a lamb was counted together with its lamb as one. The ağnam tax-farm had become one of the important items of the treasury in the seventeenth and especially the eighteenth century. Hüsameddin's mentioning sürsat together with the sheep count perhaps reflects a local practice in which that year's sürsat levy was distributed according to the number of sheep; but this is a guess. In Küçük Alizâde Hüseyin Ağa's biography Hüsameddin writes that in 1109 he became the tax farmer of a levy tax-farm for the sanjaks of Sivas, Amasya and Çorum and gained considerable wealth thanks to this tax-farm lasting five years. This same Hüseyin Ağa will become governor of Amasya in 1115.

Sefer Ağazâde Mehmed Bey's Embassy to Iran

The appointment of the register superintendent Sefer Ağazâde Mehmed Bey as envoy to Iran is part of a friendly period in Ottoman-Safavid relations. According to Nurten Sevinç's study, based on archival documents, of the Iranian envoys who came to the Ottoman state, Shah Hüseyin, after retaking Basra from the Arab tribes, had sent the keys of the city, together with valuable gifts, to Mustafa II through his envoy Rüstem Khan as a token of goodwill. Rüstem Khan was hosted in Edirne in 1109; on his return a letter of thanks to the shah was given, and "the Register Superintendent Mehmet Bey, former reisülküttab, with the rank of beylerbeyi" was appointed envoy and sent to Iran with heavy gifts. This information exactly coincides with Hüsameddin's record of "envoy to Iran with the Rumeli rank." According to Hüsameddin's biographical volume, Mehmed Bey is the son of the sister of the former grand vizier Kara İbrâhim Pasha; he was raised in the correspondence office (mektubî kalemi) of the Sublime Porte, served as reisülküttab, and, while at Rethymno, received the epithet "Ebû Kavuk" (Father of the Headdress) because of his large turban. His embassy and what followed are treated separately in the following entries.

Bibliography

Primary sources

Academic studies

Volume 4 contents

Karekod · QR code

Bu sayfanın karekodudur. A5 olarak yazdırıp asabilir ya da yapıştırabilirsiniz; okutan kişi doğrudan bu içeriğe ulaşır.

This QR code links to this page. Print it on A5 and post it anywhere; scanning it opens this content.