Malkoçoğlu family

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The Malkoçoğlu family (Turkish: Malkoçoğulları, Malkoçoğlu ailesi) or Yahyali was one of the ghazi families of Serbian origin that led the akıncı corps in the Ottoman Empire between the 14th-16th centuries. They served mainly in the Balkan conquest of the empire. The members of the family usually served as beys, sanjak-beys, beylerbeys, pashas, and castle commanders. Later on, they joined the ranks of the Ottoman Army in various missions, and one of the descendants became a Grand Vizier.

Malkoçoğulları
Country Ottoman Empire
Founded14th century
Titlesghazi ("warrior")
akıncı ("raider")
Dissolution1604

History

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The Battle of Maritsa (1371) was a disaster for the Serbian Empire, which resulted in several Serbian and Bulgarian lords becoming Ottoman vassals.[1] The Malkoçoğlu (Serbian: Malković) was a warrior family of Christian Serb origin, which became Muslim.[1][2] Malkoç, the eponymous founder, is alleged to have been one of the commanders of Sultan Murad I and Bayezid I, fighting at Kosovo (1389) and at Nicopolis (1396).

The further Ottoman expansion to the European frontiers was shared with semi-independent warriors, with the most notable being the four families of Evrenosoğulları, Mihaloğulları, both of which were of Anatolian Christian origin, Turahanoğulları of Turkish origin, and the Malkoçoğulları.[1] These four families made up the gazi (warrior) nobility.[3] Unpaid they lived and operated as raiders on the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, subsisting totally on plunder.

Members

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Genealogy known
  • Hamza
    • Malkoçoğlu Yahya Paşa bin Hamza (died 1507), married to a daughter of Bayezid II.[4]
      • Mehmed (fl. 1511), Rumelian commander, supported Selim I during the throne struggle.[4]
    • Balı (died 1514), commander, had two sons, Ali and Tur Ali, all three died at Chaldiran.[4][5]
      • Ali (died 1514)
      • Tur Ali (died 1514)
Genealogy unknown

Legacy

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There is a Bosnian Muslim epic tradition about an Ottoman hero named Malkoč-bey.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Finkel 2012, p. 21

    Four such Muslim families were particularly prominent during the Ottoman conquest of Rumeli (the name they used for the Balkan peninsula): these were the Evrenosoğulları,fn2 the Mihaloğulları, the Turahanoğulları, and the Malkoçoğulları. [...] Malkoç dynasty, properly known as Malković, were of Christian, Serb origin

  2. ^ Gemil, Tahsin (1991). Românii și otomanii în secolele XIV-XVI (in Romanian). Editura Academiei Române. p. 59. ISBN 9789732701980. Malkocogullari, tot comandanţi de acingii, erau descendenţii unui feudal sirb Malkovic).
  3. ^ Mélikoff, I. (1991). "Ewrenos". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 720.
  4. ^ a b c Yürekli 2016.
  5. ^ Yılmaz Öztuna (n.d.). Türkiye tarihi: baslangicindan zamanimiza kadar. Hayat Kitaplari. p. 152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)

    Türk atlı ordusunun sağ kanadına, Balı Bey'in büyük oğlu Ali Bey, ardeı birliklere de küçük oğlu Tur-Ali Bey kumanda ediyordu

  6. ^ Yürekli 2016, p. 118.
  7. ^ Yürekli 2016, pp. 166–167.
  8. ^ Yürekli 2016, p. 119.
  9. ^ Donald Edgar Pitcher (1968). An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire: From Earliest Times to the End of the Sixteenth Century. Brill Archive. pp. 92–. GGKEY:4CFA3RCNXRP.

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