Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu

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Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu , Evrenosoğlu Ali Bey , mostly simply Ali Bey , was an Ottoman military commander in the 15th century. During the 1430s he was Sandschakbey of Sanjak Albania and put down the Albanian uprising with the help of the Turahan Bey troops . In 1440 he took part in the unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Belgrade.

Life

origin

Ali Bey was the son of the Ottoman general Evrenos . He was a Byzantine prince and converted to Islam. The family came from Anatolia and was one of the four leading Ghāzī families who were important as warriors for the Ottoman conquests of the late 14th century.

Sandschakbey of Albania

Ali Bey was Sandschakbey of Albania before 1432. When Işak Bey conquered Dagnum from Koja Zaharia in 1430 , it was annexed to the area controlled by Ali Bey.

In the early phase of the Albanian uprising in the years 1432 to 1436, in the winter of 1432, Sultan Murat II gathered around 10,000 men under the command of Ali Bey, who marched along the Via Egnatia into the valley of Shkumbin , where the Ottoman army however by soldiers of the Albanian prince Gjergj Arianiti was attacked and defeated. In the years 1435/36 Ali Bey Turahan Bey's campaign followed, which restored the Ottoman order in the region.

Campaigns

In 1438 Evrenosoglu commanded an army that sacked Wallachia and Transylvania. In 1440 Ali Bey took part in the unsuccessful siege of Belgrade . The Ottoman general had a wall built around the city and then used the stones for slingshots. According to contemporary historian Konstantin Mihailović , the Ottoman soldier who would wave the Ottoman flag on the Belgrade walls was promised the title of bey and property. Although Evrenosoglu already held the title of Bey by that time, he decided to personally lead the attack against the walls of Belgrade Castle in hopes of improving his already good reputation.

According to Demetrios Chalkokondyles , a legend tells that the Hungarian general Johann Hunyadi Evrenosoğlus was a stable boy. After his flight to Hungary he is said to have entered the service of the King of Hungary. In 1444 the troops of the King of Hungary and Poland under Hunyadi and the troops of Murad II met. In the Battle of Varna , the Ottomans defeated King Władysław III. Hunyadi barely escaped.

When Sultan Murad II died in 1451, Ali Bey was sent by Mehmed II to drown Mehmed's half-brother Küçük Ahmed Çelebi and thus secure his claim to the throne.

Evrenosoğlu was buried in the courtyard of the Gazi Evrenos Mosque in Yenidje (now Giannitsa , Greece).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Jefferson: The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad: The Ottoman-Christian Conflict from 1438-1444 . Brill, 2012, ISBN 978-90-04-22925-9 , pp. 163, 244
  2. ^ Franz Babinger : Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time . Princeton University Press. Princeton / New Jersey 1992, ISBN 0-691-09900-6 , OCLC 716361786 p. 18
  3. ↑ Stanford J. Shaw, Ezel Kural Shaw: Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808 . (= History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey , Volume 1). Cambridge University Press, 1976, ISBN 978-0-521-29163-7 , p. 20 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Caroline Finkel: Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923 . Hodder & Stoughton, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84854-785-8 , pp. 45f.
  5. ↑ Stefanaq Pollo, Arben Puto, Kristo Frashëri, Skënder Anamali: Histoire de l'Albanie, des origines à nos jours . Horvath, 1974, ISBN 978-2-7171-0025-9 p. 78
  6. ↑ Zarij M. Bešić: Istorija Crne Gore / second Crna Gora u doba oblasnih Gospodara . Redakcija za istoiju Crne Gore, Titograd 1970 OCLC 175122851 , p. 158
  7. ↑ Martijn Theodoor Houtsma: First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936 . Volume VIII, EJ Brill and Luzac and Co., 1993, p. 466
  8. ^ John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest . University of Michigan Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5 , p. 535
  9. ^ Kurt W. Treptow: Vlad III Dracula: the life and times of the historical Dracula . Center of Romanian Studies, 2000, ISBN 978-973-98392-2-8 , p. 203 ( online at Google Boks )
  10. ↑ Babinger (1992), p. 16
  11. ↑ Babinger (1992), p. 18
  12. ↑ Jefferson (2012), p. 244
  13. ↑ Joseph Held: Hunyadi: legend and reality . East European Monographs, 1985, ISBN 978-0-88033-070-1 , p. 9 ( online at Google Books )
  14. ^ Colin Imber: The Crusade of Varna, 1443-45 . Ashgate Publishing 2006, ISBN 978-0-7546-0144-9
  15. ↑ Babinger (1992), p. 18
  16. ↑ Apostolos E. Vakalopoulos: History of Macedonia, 1354-1833 . Institute for Balkan Studies, 1973, p. 259 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ottoman general and governor
DATE OF BIRTH 14th or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century