Begdili
The Begdili ( Turkish Beğdili ) were an important oghusischer tribe. Other spellings are Bigdeli, Bagdilu, Bagdeli, Bägdili, Baydili, Baydilli, Bedil, Begdeli, Beğdili, Beğdilü, Beğdilli, Beğdillü, Beydili, Beydilli, Badılı, Badıllı and Badilli.
Mahmud al-Kāshgharī mentioned them under the name of Begtili as one of the 24 Oghuz tribes. As a totem animal , they had a golden eagle. The etymology of their tribal name means in Old Turkish the one whose message is respected .
The Begdili came with the Seljuks from Central Asia to Anatolia and the Middle East in the 11th century . Other Begdili groups probably fled from the Mongols to Anatolia and Syria in the 13th century . In Syria the 14th / 15th In the 19th century there was a large community of Begdilis near Aleppo . They were led by the Taskhun Oghullari family and played a major role in northern Syria for the next several centuries. At the same time, a large number of the Begdili also lived in Gülnar in today 's Mersin Province . The Syrian Begdili had other clans in the Diyarbakır region . In the 14th century, part of the Begdili migrated with the Shamlu tribe to Iran , where they helped found the Safavid Empire. Some of the leaders of the Kizilbash and the Safavid administration were Begdili.
In the 17th century the Begdili held the best grazing places between Diyarbakır and Aleppo. In 1630, the Ottoman governor Hüşrev Pascha led a punitive expedition against the Begdili because they had refused to pay the tax and their cattle had damaged the farmers' fields.
The size of the trunk was estimated at 12,000 tents at the end of the 17th century. In 1690 the Begdili took part in the Ottoman campaign against Austria. Later the Ottoman government tried to settle the nomadic Begdili in the ar-Raqqa region .
source
- The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition , article Begdili by Faruk Sümer
- Article Bīgdelī , from the Encyclopædia Iranica