Boluk-bashi () was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to

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(see

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). The holder was in command of a ''bölük'', a sub-division of a regiment. It was higher than ''oda-bashi'' (lieutenant). __NOTOC__

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In the

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of the

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, it was known as ''bulucbasci'' and was the equivalent to the rank of sergeant.

Serbian hajduks

It was adopted by the

Serbian hajduks The Serbian hajduks ( / ''hajduci'') were brigands (bandits) and guerrilla freedom fighters (rebels) throughout Ottoman-held Balkans, mainly in Serbia, organized into bands headed by a '' harambaša'' ("bandit leader"), who descended from the mou ...

and into the

Serbian Revolution The Serbian Revolution ( / ') was a national uprising and constitutional change in Serbia that took place between 1804 and 1835, during which this territory evolved from an Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman province into a Revolutionary Serbia, reb ...

ary Army as ''buljubaša'' ( sr-cyr, буљубаша) or ''buljukbaša'' (). People such as

Janko Gagić Janko Gagić ( sr-Cyrl, Јанко Гагић; died 4 February 1804) was a Serbian hajduk leader (''buljubaša'') He was killed during the '' Slaughter of the Knezes'', the incident that sparked the Serbian Revolution, ultimately leading to Serbi ...

Arsenije Loma Arsenije Loma ( sr-cyr, Арсеније Лома; 1768–1815) was a Serbian ''voivode'' (military commander) in the First and Second Serbian Uprising of the Serbian Revolution (1804–1817). He was appointed by Karađorđe to command Kačer ...

Konda Bimbaša Konda Bimbaša; ( sr-cyr, Конда Бимбаша; ), March 1804–d. May/June 1807) was an Albanian in Alija Gušanac's Dahije detachment in the Sanjak of Smederevo who switched sides to the Serb rebels during the First Serbian Uprising, procla ...

Zeka Buljubaša Jovan Gligorijević ( sr-cyr, Јован Глигоријевић, 1785–1813), known as Zeka Buljubaša (Зека Буљубаша), was a Serbian revolutionary captain ('' buljubaša'') and nobleman active during the First Serbian Uprising. ...

Veljko Petrović Veljko Petrović ( sr-cyr, Вељко Петровић, ; c. 1780 – 1813), known simply as Hajduk Veljko (Хајдук Вељко, ǎjduːk v̞ɛ̌ːʎkɔ, was one of the '' vojvodas'' (military commanders) of the Serbian Revolutionary force ...

and

Petar Dobrnjac Petar Teodorović ( sr-cyr, Петар Теодоровић; 1771–1831), known as Petar Dobrnjac (Петар Добрњац) was a Serbian Vojvoda in the First Serbian Uprising. He was born in the Požarevac nahija, in the village of Dobrnje, ...

had the rank of ''buljubaša'' in the prelude and during the

Notable people

Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı Rıza Tevfik Bey (Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı after the Turkish Surname Law of 1934; 1869 – 31 December 1949) was an Ottoman and later Turkish people, Turkish Turkish philosophy, philosopher, poetry of Turkey, poet, politician of liberalism, li ...

, Turkish philosopher *

Zerrin Bölükbaşı Zerrin Bölükbaşı (1919–2010) was a Turkish sculptor. She was of the first Turkish female sculptors, and the first woman sculptor to work on abstract sculptures. Life Early life Zerrin Bölükbaşı was born as Zerrin Ark to İhsan and Nevza ...

, Turkish sculptor *

Iliaș Colceag Iliaș Colceag (fl. before 1710 – 1743) was a Moldavian mercenary and military commander in the Ottoman and Russian Empire. Biography According to some sources, Colceag was born in southern Bessarabia (Budjak), at a time when Moldavia was a vas ...

( 1710–1743), Moldavian *Abdul Bölükbaşı ( 1821), Tripolitsa *

Yahya bey Dukagjini Yahya bey Dukagjini (1488–1582; or , and ) was an Albanian poet and military figure. He is known for his Ottoman Turkish '' diwan'' poems of the 16th century. In his youth, Dukagjini was recruited as a poet via the Ottomans' ''devşirme''. H ...

(1498–1582), Albanian

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Royal Corps of Colonial Troops

Serbian hajduks

Notable people

See also

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