Pasha Yiğit Bey or Saruhanli Pasha Yiğit Bey ( sh, Pašait-beg, also ''Pasaythus'' or ''Basaitus'' d. 1413) was an Ottoman 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

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, and the father of

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Babinger (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

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. 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 Battle of Kosovo in 1389. In 1390 the Ottomans populated parts of Macedonia (in modern-day northern Greece) with Yürüks from Saruhan. Since Pasha Yiğit Bey was also of Yürük nomadic tribal origin (from Saruhan) he also settled in the same borderland ( tr, uc) and was appointed as a leader of his fellow tribesmen. In 1392 Pasha Yiğit Bey led the army that took

( tr, Üsküp), thus he was named the conqueror of

by the Ottoman Empire. Pasha Yiğit Bey became the first lord ( tr, uc beği) of the

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, the borderland province of

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, and served for 21 years, from 1392 to 1413. In spring of 1390, after the Battle of Kosovo, Yiğit was sent by Sultan Bayazid to invade Bosnia which he did, undertaking two campaigns. Pasha Yiğit Bey managed to capture

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in a battle and released him after the ransom was paid.

Family tree

After

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in the ''

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'':Babinger (1987), p. 877

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