Pasha Yiğit Bey

Pasha Yiğit Bey
Personal details
Born	Principality of Saruhan
Died	ca. 1413
Relations	Isak Beg and Turahan Bey (sons)
Buried	Meddah mosque, Skopje
Family	Turahanoğlu
Military service
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Years of service	ca. 1390–1413
Wars and campaigns	Battle of Kosovo, capture of Skopje

Pasha Yiğit Bey or Saruhanli Pasha Yiğit Bey^[1] (Serbo-Croatian: Pašait-beg, also Pasaythus or Basaitus; died 1413) was an Ottoman civil and military officer at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century.

Life

He was born in Manisa and was of Yörük origin.^[2][3] Yiğit was the tutor of Ishak Bey, the second ruler of Sanjak of Üsküp,^[4] and the father of Turahan Bey^[5] an Ottoman general, conqueror of Thessaly and warden of its marches. The Ottoman Sultan granted large land estates to Pasha Yiğit Bey and to Ishak Bey for their merits.^[6]

He died in Skopje, and was buried in the yard of the notable Meddah Mosque.^[7] The mosque and türbe were destroyed during World War II.^[8]

Military career

Pasha Yiğit Bey was one of the Ottoman commanders in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389.^[9] In 1390 the Ottomans populated parts of Macedonia (in modern-day northern Greece) with Yürüks from Saruhan. Since Pasha Yiğit Bey was also of Yürük nomadic tribal origin (from Saruhan) he also settled in the same borderland (Turkish: uc) and was appointed as a leader of his fellow tribesmen.^[10] In 1392 Pasha Yiğit Bey led the army that took Skopje (Turkish: Üsküp), thus he was named the conqueror of Skopje by the Ottoman Empire.^[5]

Pasha Yiğit Bey became the first lord (Turkish: uc beği) of the Skopsko Krajište, the borderland province of Ottoman Empire, and served for 21 years, from 1392 to 1413.^[11] In spring of 1390, after the Battle of Kosovo, Yiğit was sent by Sultan Bayazid to invade Bosnia which he did, undertaking two campaigns.^[12][13][14] Pasha Yiğit Bey managed to capture Đurađ II Balšić in a battle and released him after the ransom was paid.^[15]

Family tree

After Franz Babinger in the Encyclopedia of Islam:^[16]

Pasha Yiğit Bey

Ishak Bey

Turahan Bey

Isa Bey Isaković

Ahmed Bey

Ömer Bey

Hasan Bey

Idris Bey

See also

• Dzhigit

References

1. Dominik Mandić (1978). Sabrana djela Dr. O. Dominika Mandića: Bosna i Hercegovina: povjesno kritička istraživanja. Ziral. p. 152. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Saruhanli paša Jigit-beg
2. Malcolm, Noel (2020). Rebels, Believers, Survivors Studies in the History of the Albanians. Oxford University Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780192599223. Retrieved 28 August 2021. Turahan Bey, who died in c.1456, inherited large land-holdings in Thessaly from his father, Yiğit Bey, a prominent Yürük commander.
3. Apostolos Euangelou Vakalopoulos (1970). Origins of the Greek nation: the Byzantine period, 1204-1461. Rutgers University Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780813506593. Retrieved 24 September 2013. These were probably kin to the warlord Pasha Yigit Bey, father of Turahan Bey of Thessaly, and were probably also moved there from Saruhan.
4. Владимир Бабић (1960). Историја народа Југославије. Просвета. p. 48. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
5. Babinger (1987), p. 876
6. Ljubiša Doklestić (1964). Kroz historiju Makedonije: izabrani izvori. Školska knj. p. 54. Retrieved 26 July 2013. ... paSa Jigit-beg i njegov nasljednik Ishak-beg, dobili velike zem- ljisne posjede.
7. Evliya Çelebi; Hazim Šabanović (1996). Putopisi: odlomci o jugoslovenskim zemljama. Sarajevo-Publishing. p. 280. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Paša Jigit-beg je umro u Skoplju i sahranjen je u posebnom turbetu u dvorištu Meddah-džamije.
8. MacHiel Kiel (1990). Studies on the Ottoman Architecture of the Balkans. Variorum Publishing Group. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-86078-276-6. Retrieved 26 July 2013. The mosque and turbe of the ancestor of the family, Pasha Yigit Bey, was destroyed during the Second World War.
9. Evliya Çelebi; Hazim Šabanović (1996). Putopisi: odlomci o jugoslovenskim zemljama. Sarajevo-Publishing. p. 280. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Paša Jigit- -beg, koji se prvi put pominje kao jedan između turskih komandanata u kosovskoj bici.
10. Halil İnalcık (1978). The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy. Variorum Reprints. pp. 119, 125. ISBN 978-0-86078-032-8. Retrieved 24 September 2013. Considering also the fact that « the Turkish emigrants from Anatolia who accompanied Evrenos Bey and Turahan Bey » (x), as well as the men led by the famous uc-beyi of Uskiip, Pasha-yigit Bey, who had been transferred to Uskiip at the
11. Öztuna, Yılmaz (2005). Devletler ve hânedanlar: Türkiye : 1074 - 1990. Kültür Bakanlığı. p. 802. Manisalı Paşa Yiğit Bey (ölm. Üsküb 1413), Üsküb fâtihi ve ilk s.b. 6.1.1392 - 1413 = 21, med. Üsküb.
12. Mustafa Spahić (1996). Povijest Islama. Borac. p. 564. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Poslije kosovske bitke 1389. godine šalje Bajezid i jigit pašu sa vojskom na Bosnu.
13. Mehmed H. Handžić (1940). Islamizacija Bosne i Hercegovine i porijeklo bosansko-hercegovačkih muslimana. Islamska dionička štamparija. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
14. Zagreb (Croatia). Leksikografski zavod FNRJ.; Ivo Cecić; Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod; Igor Gostl (1955). Enciklopedija Jugoslavije. Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. p. 420. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Istovremeno je Pasa Jigit provalio u dva maha u Bosnu
15. Anto Babić; Bogo Grafenauer (1953). Historija naroda Jugoslavije. Skolska knjiga. p. 492. Retrieved 26 July 2013. U jednom sukobu s Turcima Đurđa je zarobio skopski sandžak-beg Paša Jigit, a Radič Crnojević je tada zauzeo okolinu Kotora i proglasio se »gospodarem Zete, Budve i t. d.« Đurađ je uspio da se iskupi iz...
16. Babinger (1987), p. 877

Sources

• Babinger, Franz (1987) [1936]. "Turakhān Beg". In Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (ed.). E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936, Volume VIII. Leiden: BRILL. pp. 876–878. ISBN 90-04-09794-5.

Further reading

• Skopski Isakovici i Paşa-jigit beg, GSND XI. (1932)

New title

Ottoman governor of the Üsküb frontier 1392–1415

Succeeded by Ishak Bey