AMASYA 05

Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar · İKİNCİ BÂB · BİRİNCİ FASIL

İlyâs Bey-Hacı Beyzâde

Encyclopedia · History of Amasya, Volume 7, p. 344 • Edited by: Prof. Dr. Safi ARPAGUŞ- Prof. Dr. Ahmet Hakkı TURABİ

Original Text (Ottoman Turkish)

Hakalalıdır. Ümerâdan Abdullah Bey bin Kasım Bey bin el-Hâc Mehmed Bey’in mahdûmudur. Amasya vâlisi Şehzâde Sultân Ahmed Hân bin Sultân Bâyezîd Hân-ı Sânî maiyyetinde emîr-i pây-gâh, ya’nî teşrifâtçı olup 918’de mün’adim oldu.

Our Research Article Editor: Mevlüt Erdem Öztürk

In Modern English

He was from Hakala. He was the son of Abdullah Bey, one of the beys; Abdullah Bey was the son of Kasım Bey, who was the son of Hacı Mehmed Bey. In the retinue of Prince Sultan Ahmed Khan, governor of Amasya, that is, the son of Sultan Bayezid II Khan, he served as emîr-i pâygâh, that is, master of ceremonies, and passed away in 918 [1512-13].

Notes and Research

Old Words in the Text

  • Hakalalı: from the Hakala region
  • ümerâ: beys
  • ma'iyyet: the body of officials around a great man
  • emîr-i pâygâh: in Hüsameddin's own gloss, master of ceremonies
  • mün'adim: gone, ceased to exist; here, dead
  • vâlî: governor, administrator of a sanjak

Prince Ahmed and Amasya

The Prince Ahmed mentioned in the entry was a son of Sultan Bayezid II, born around 1466 and died in 1513. As governor of Amasya, Ahmed was in practice regarded as heir to the throne in his father's last years. Until the middle of the sixteenth century Amasya was among the main centers to which princes were sent to gain administrative experience; Prince Ahmed, son of Bayezid II, who saw himself as a strong claimant to the throne, also served as an administrator there. He is known as a poet and scholar and protected artists; poets such as Mihri Hatun were in his circle.

The year 918 corresponds to roughly March 1512 to March 1513; this is our own calculation. The struggle for the throne between Ahmed and his brother Selim was under way in these years. In the first months of Selim's reign, Ahmed held part of Anatolia; he was defeated in the battle near Yenişehir on 24 April 1513, was captured and was executed shortly after. Some of Ahmed's sons were also killed in Amasya in 1512-1513 on Selim's order. The death of Abdullah Bey's son took place in this turbulent year; neither the text nor the sources read say during which event he died. To link it with these events would be an inference.

Hakala

Hakala is one of the old administrative settlements of the sanjak of Amasya. According to one study, in 1871 the nahiyes of the kazâ of Amasya were Ezine Pazar, Geldiklân, Hakala and Akdağ; in 1892 Hakala is again counted among the nahiyes attached to the kazâ of Amasya. On the present location of Hakala, some accounts point to the village of Yolpınar in Suluova; this information could not be verified in a reliable source read.

No information was found in the sources read on Abdullah Bey, Kasım Bey, Hacı Mehmed Bey, or the subject of the entry.

Bibliography

Primary sources

  • Abdîzâde Hüseyin Hüsâmeddîn Yasar, Amasya Tarihi, Amasya Belediyesi Kültür Yayınları, 2022, vol. 7, p. 344–344. amasya.bel.tr

Academic studies

  • Sabit Genç, "Amasya İli ve Yakın Çevresinin Tarihi Coğrafyası", Journal of Social, Humanities and Administrative Sciences, 7/42 (2021), p. 1313-1333. http://dx.doi.org/10.31589/JOSHAS.686

Other sources

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