Begzada Explained

Begzada (Kurdish), Beyzade (Turkish), and Begzadići (Slavic), Beizadea (Romanian), Begzadi (female) are titles given within the Ottoman Empire to provisional governors and military generals who are descendants of noble households and occupy important positions within the empire.^{[1] [2] [3]} The term "Beyzade" often appears in Western accounts of the Ottoman Empire as superiors within the society, usually men who held much authority.^{[4] [5]} In Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and some parts of Anatolia and Iraqi Kurdistan, the title of Beyzade was given to Circassian princes who led parts of the Ottoman conquest in these regions.^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

Social status

The Begzada as a caste developed in Kurdistan among some of the chief tribes and householders such as those of the Jaffs, Khoshnaws, Feylis Berwaris and the Bayat Begzade family descendants .^{[10] [11]} Begzade formed the dominant class of the tribe or household. They did not intermarry with socially inferior tribespeople; however, a member of the Begzade could be part of the caste both by kinship ties to the ruling lineage and as one of their retainers.^[12] Although regarded as Kurds, the Begzade come from an ethnically mixed background, as most of them have Circassian origins.^{[13] [14]}

See also

• Beg or Baig
• Behzadi
• Khanzada
• Shahzada
• Sahibzada
• Begzadići

Notes and References

1. Book: Ali H. Neyzi. Beyzade-Paşazade: 1930-1990, Volume 2. 27 October 2013. 1992. Yanar Yayınları.
2. Book: Özdemir Kaptan. Beyoğlu: (Beyoğlu ve kısa geçmişi). 27 October 2013. 1988. Aybay Yayınları.
3. Book: Atilla Dorsay . Benim Beyoğlum. 27 October 2013. 1991. ağdaş Yayıncılık ve Basın Sanayii A.Ş..
4. Book: Sir Slade, Adolphus. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831, Volume 2. 1833. E. L. Carey & A. Hart. 26.
5. Book: Wells, Florian Stone. The Sword and the Shield of the Realm. 2008. Florian Stone Wells. 978-0979957703. 305.
6. Book: Philliou, Christine M.. Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution. 2010. University of California Press. 978-0520947757.
7. Book: Cole, Juan Ricardo. Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East. 1999. American Univ in Cairo Press. 9774245180.
8. Book: Chatty, Dawn. Dawn Chatty

   . Dawn Chatty. Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East. 2010. Cambridge University Press. 978-0521817929.

9. Book: Pamuk, Sevek. A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire. 2000. Cambridge University Press. 0521441978.
10. Book: Maarten Martinus van Bruinessen, Anijeholt, Voyage en Russie, en Caucase, en Perse .page 220. Agha, shaikh and state: on the social and political organization of Kurdistan. 27 September 2012. 1978. Rijksuniversiteit. 80.
11. Book: Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale. Tribe and kinship among the Kurds. 1991. Peter Lang Publishing. 3631427026.
12. Book: Tapper, Richard. Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan. 27 September 2012. 2012-04-23. Routledge. 9780415610568. 408.
13. Book: Maglaughlin, Kelly. Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography. 2001. Greenwood Publishing Group. 0313315434.
14. Book: Gingeras, Ryan. Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923. 2009. Oxford University Press. 9780191609794.