Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey (; 1463–64) was an Ottoman

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n general and the first governor of the

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, serving

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. He was of Turkish origin. Minnetoğlu participated in the Bosnian campaign led by Sultan Mehmed in 1463–64 (1460–61 according to chronicler

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). According to some Bosnian sources he was at that time the governor of the

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, or "lord of the Serbian land", however, other sources treat general Ali Bey Mihaloğlu as the ''sanjak-bey'' of Smederevo, appointed in 1462–63. When the sultan left the siege of

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to march against retreating Hungarians, Minnetoğlu was placed in charge of the siege. After the second siege in 1463 or 1464, the sultan appointed Minnetoğlu as the first ''sanjak-bey'' (provincial governor) of the Sanjak of Bosnia, at first seated at Jajce (later

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). Minnetoğlu sent 500 cavalry to the Ottoman camp at

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, fighting the besieging

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. Isa-Beg Ishaković succeeded him as Bosnian governor. Sultan Mehmed settled

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from

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into

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under the leadership of Minnetoğlu.

Endowments

*A mosque near where the

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in Sarajevo was later built. *''Konuş Hisarı'',“In Search of Vanished Ottoman Monuments in the Balkans: Minnetoğlu Mehmed Beg's Complex in Konuş Hisarı.” In Monuments, Patrons, Contexts: Papers on Ottoman Europe a ''bedestan'' and ''imaret'' at ''Tatar-Pazarcığı'' from where the town of

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in Bulgaria evolved.

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