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Ertuğrul (other)
Ertuğrul or Ertuğrul Ghazi (; died ) was a 13th-century uch bey (marcher-lord), who was the father of Osman I. Little is known about Ertuğrul's life. According to Ottoman tradition, he was the son of Suleyman Shah, the leader of the Kayı tribe (a claim which has come under criticism from many historians) of the Oghuz Turks (then known as Turkomans), which fled from western Central Asia to Anatolia to escape the Mongol conquests; but according to contemporary numinastic evidence, he was the son of Gündüz Alp. According to the legend, after the death of his father, Ertuğrul and his followers entered the service of the Sultanate of Rum, for which he was rewarded with dominion over the town of Söğüt on the frontier with the Byzantine Empire. This set off the chain of events that would ultimately lead to the founding of the Ottoman Empire. Biography Nothing is known with certainty about Ertuğrul's life, other than that he was the father of Osman; historians are thus for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghazi (warrior)
A ''ghazi'', or ''gazi'' (, , plural ''ġuzāt'') is an individual who participated in ''ghazw'' (, ''wikt:ghazwa, ''), meaning military expeditions or raids against non-Muslims. The latter term was applied in early Islamic literature to expeditions led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and later taken up by Turkic military leaders to describe their wars of conquest. In the context of the wars between Russia and the Muslim peoples of the Caucasus, starting as early as the late 18th century's Sheikh Mansur's resistance to Russian expansion, the word usually appears in the form ''gazavat'' (). In English-language literature, the ''ghazw'' often appears as ''Razzia (military), razzia'', a borrowing through French from Maghrebi Arabic. In modern Turkish language, Turkish, ''gazi'' is used to refer to veterans, and also as a title for Turkic Muslim champions such as Ertuğrul and Osman I. Ghazwa as raid—razzia In pre-Islamic Bedouin culture, ghazw[a] was a form of limited warfar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uch Bey
An ''uç bey'' or ''uch bey'' () was the title given to semi-autonomous warrior chieftains during the Sultanate of Rum and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire. As leaders of ''akinji'' warrior bands, they played a leading role during the conquests of the Byzantine Empire and the other Christian states of the Balkans. The term is analogous to Persian ''marzban'' or Western European margrave. Uch beys were proclaimed ghazis and as a rule were dervishes. After Michael VIII Palaiologos removed the '' akritai'' and the land grants through which they survived, many Byzantine renegades went over to Ottoman service Rumelia's first ''uch bey'' was Lala Şahin Pasha, who conquered Edirne, Boruj, Plovdiv, and was later the ''beylerbey'' of the Rumelia Eyalet. Pasha Yiğit Bey was an ''uch bey'' from Skopje to the Serbian and Greek lands, advancing to Bosnia and the Morea. Ertuğrul, father of the first Ottoman Sultan Osman I, was ''uch bey'' of Söğüt. See also * Osman's Dream * Ghaza thesis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
