Turahanoğlu family

Turahanoğlu family (Turkish: Turahanoğulları, Turahanoğlu ailesi) was one of the families that led the akıncı corps in Ottoman Empire between the 15th-16th centuries.

Turahanoğulları
Country	Ottoman Empire
Founded	1389
Titles	ghazi ("warrior") akinci ("raider")

History

The family was of Yürük origin, as it descended from Yiğit Bey of Saruhan, who would become a prominent general.^[1][2] In 1390 the Ottomans populated parts of Macedonia (in modern-day northern Greece) and the Yürüks from Saruhan followed them. Pasha Yiğit Bey settled with the rest of the tribe in the borderland and was appointed as a leader of his troublesome fellow tribesmen.^[3] In 1392 Pasha Yiğit Bey led the army that took Skopje (Turkish: Üsküp), thus he was named the conqueror of Skopje by the Ottoman Empire.^[4]

Pasha Yiğit Bey became the first lord (Turkish: uc beği) of the Sanjak of Üsküp, the borderland province of Ottoman Empire, and served for 21 years, from 1392 to 1413.^[5] He died and was buried in Skopje.^[6] He had two sons, Turahan Bey and Ishak Bey. Turahan became a prominent Ottoman military commander and governor of Thessaly from 1423 until his death in 1456. He participated in many Ottoman campaigns of the second quarter of the 15th century, fighting against the Byzantines as well as against the Crusade of Varna. Turahan begat Ahmet and Ömer. The latter was an Ottoman general and governor, active chiefly in southern Greece, who fought in the Morea against both the Byzantines in the 1440s and 1450s and against the Venetians in the 1460s, while in 1456, he conquered the Latin Duchy of Athens. He also fought in Albania, north-east Italy, Wallachia and Anatolia.^[7][8]

Members

• Turahan Bey (fl. 1413–d. 1456), general and governor, son of Pasha Yiğit Bey
  • Turahanoğlu Ahmed Bey
  • Turahanoğlu Ömer Bey (fl. 1435–1484), general and governor
    • Hasan Bey
    • Idris Bey

Family tree

After Franz Babinger in the Encyclopedia of Islam:^[9]

Pasha Yiğit Bey

Ishak Bey

Turahan Bey

Isa Bey Isaković

Ahmed Bey

Ömer Bey

Hasan Bey

Idris Bey

References

1. Malcolm, Noel (2020). Rebels, Believers, Survivors Studies in the History of the Albanians. Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780192599223. Retrieved 28 August 2021. Turahan Bey, who died in c.1456, inherited large land-holdings in Thessaly from his father, Yiğit Bey, a prominent Yürük commander.
2. Apostolos Euangelou Vakalopoulos (1970). Origins of the Greek nation: the Byzantine period, 1204-1461. Rutgers University Press. p. 163. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
3. Halil İnalcık (1978). The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy. Variorum Reprints. pp. 119, 125. ISBN 978-0-86078-032-8. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
4. Babinger 1987, p. 876.
5. Öztuna, Yılmaz (2005). Devletler ve hânedanlar: Türkiye : 1074 - 1990. Kültür Bakanlığı. p. 802. Manisalı Paşa Yiğit Bey (ölm. Üsküb 1413), Üsküb fâtihi ve ilk s.b. 6.1.1392 - 1413 = 21, med. Üsküb.
6. Evliya Çelebi; Hazim Šabanović (1996). Putopisi: odlomci o jugoslovenskim zemljama. Sarajevo-Publishing. p. 280. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Paša Jigit-beg je umro u Skoplju i sahranjen je u posebnom turbetu u dvorištu Meddah-džamije.
7. Babinger 1987.
8. Stavrides, Théoharis (2001). The Sultan of Vezirs: The Life and Times of the Ottoman Grand Vezir Mahmud Pasha Angelovic (1453–1474). Brill. ISBN 90-04-12106-4.
9. Babinger (1987), p. 877

Sources

• Finkel, Caroline (2012). Osman's dream: the story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923. ISBN 9780465008506.
• Babinger, Franz (1987) [1936]. "Turakhān Beg". In Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (ed.). E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Volume VIII. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 90-04-09794-5.