Begzada

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Begzada (Kurdish), Beyzade (Turkish), and Begzadići (Slavic), Beizadea (Romanian), Begzadi (female) "Bəyzadə" (Azerbaijani) are titles given within the Ottoman Empire to provisional governors and military generals who are descendants of noble households and occupy important positions within the empire.[1][2][3] The term "Beyzade" often appears in Western accounts of the Ottoman Empire as superiors within the society, usually men who held much authority.[4][5] In Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and some parts of Anatolia and Iraqi Kurdistan, the title of Beyzade was given to Circassian princes who led parts of the Ottoman conquest in these regions.[6][7][8][9]

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  2. ^ Özdemir Kaptan (1988). Beyoğlu: (Beyoğlu ve kısa geçmişi). Aybay Yayınları. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. ^ Atilla Dorsay (1991). Benim Beyoğlum. ağdaş Yayıncılık ve Basın Sanayii A.Ş. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  4. ^ Sir Slade, Adolphus (1833). Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831, Volume 2. E. L. Carey & A. Hart. p. 26.
  5. ^ Wells, Florian Stone (2008). The Sword and the Shield of the Realm. Florian Stone Wells. p. 305. ISBN 978-0979957703.
  6. ^ Philliou, Christine M. (2010). Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520947757.
  7. ^ Cole, Juan Ricardo (1999). Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN 9774245180.
  8. ^ Chatty, Dawn (2010). Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521817929.
  9. ^ Pamuk, Sevek (2000). A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521441978.