Pasha Yiğit Bey or Saruhanli Pasha Yiğit Bey (, also ''Pasaythus'' or ''Basaitus''; died 1413) was an

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ish civil and military officer at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century.

Life

He was born in

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and was of Yörük origin. Yiğit was the tutor of Ishak Bey, the second ruler of Sanjak of Üsküp, and the father of Turahan BeyBabinger (1987), p. 876 an Ottoman general, conqueror of

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and warden of its marches. The Ottoman Sultan granted large land estates to Pasha Yiğit Bey and to Ishak Bey for their merits. He died in

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, and was buried in the yard of the notable Meddah Mosque. The

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and

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were destroyed during

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Military career

Pasha Yiğit Bey was one of the Ottoman commanders in the

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in 1389. In 1390, the

Ottoman Turks The Ottoman Turks () were a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group in Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in the 13th century and founded the Ottoman Empire, in which they remained socio-politically dominant for the e ...

populated parts of Macedonia (in modern-day northern Greece) with nomadic Yürüks from Saruhan. Since Pasha Yiğit Bey was also of Yürük nomadic tribal origin (from Saruhan) he also settled in the same borderland () and was appointed as a leader of his fellow tribesmen. In 1392, Pasha Yiğit Bey led the army that captured

(), thus he was named the conqueror of

by the Ottoman Sultan

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. Pasha Yiğit Bey became the first lord () of the Skopsko Krajište, the borderland province of the

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, and served for 21 years, from 1392 to 1413. In spring of 1390, after the

, Yiğit was sent by Sultan Bayazid to invade

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which he did, undertaking two campaigns. Pasha Yiğit Bey managed to capture Đurađ II Balšić in a battle and released him after the ransom was paid.

Family tree

After Franz Babinger in the ''

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'':Babinger (1987), p. 877

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