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and Uskoplje. The oldest known member of the Kopčić family is Kasim Bey, who owned a ziamet, a form of land tenure, in the

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of Osat, Borač and Vratar, all located in the

kaza A kaza (, , , plural: , , ; ota, قضا, script=Arab, (; meaning 'borough') * bg, околия (; meaning 'district'); also Кааза * el, υποδιοίκησις () or (, which means 'borough' or 'municipality'); also () * lad, kaza , ...

of Višegrad. The ziamet consisted of six villages. It produced

akçe The ''akçe'' or ''akça'' (also spelled ''akche'', ''akcheh''; ota, آقچه; ) refers to a silver coin which was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. The word itself evolved from the word "silver or silver money", this word is deri ...

as revenue. During the

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, when most of the Ottoman Bosnian landlords went for the battle, Kasim Bey was ordered to stay to defend the Bosnia Eyalet. He had two sons – Murat Bey and Džafer Bey. Murat Bey was a

sanjak-bey ''Sanjak-bey'', ''sanjaq-bey'' or ''-beg'' ( ota, سنجاق بك) () was the title given in the Ottoman Empire to a bey (a high-ranking officer, but usually not a pasha) appointed to the military and administrative command of a district (''sanjak' ...

of Klis and resided in Livno. He owned a ziamet in the nahiyah of

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, consisting of several villages. Murat Bey built a maqtab in Prozor. He had three sons – Džafer Bey, Kasim Bey and Nuh Bey. All of them were beys and owned land in the

region. Murat Bey's brother Džafer is mentioned in several folk songs. Mehmed Bey, his only known child, was a landowner in the nahiyah of Neretva. The Kopčić family traditionally was in good relations with the Catholic populace.

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