Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey
AllegianceOttoman Empire
Years of service15th century
Ranksanjak-bey (provincial governor)

Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey (Serbo-Croatian: Mehmed-beg Minetović; fl. 1463–64) was an Ottoman Bosnian general and the first governor of the Sanjak of Bosnia, serving Sultan Mehmed II. He was of Turkish origin.[1]

Minnetoğlu participated in the Bosnian campaign led by Sultan Mehmed in 1463–64[2] (1460–61 according to chronicler Tursun Beg).[3] According to some Bosnian sources he was at that time the governor of the Sanjak of Smederevo,[2] or "lord of the Serbian land",[4] however, other sources treat general Ali Bey Mihaloğlu as the sanjak-bey of Smederevo, appointed in 1462–63.[5] When the sultan left the siege of Jajce to march against retreating Hungarians, Minnetoğlu was placed in charge of the siege.[3] After the second[2] siege in 1463[4] or 1464,[2] the sultan appointed Minnetoğlu as the first sanjak-bey (provincial governor) of the Sanjak of Bosnia, at first seated at Jajce (later Sarajevo).[6] Minnetoğlu sent 500 cavalry to the Ottoman camp at Zvornik, fighting the besieging Hungarians.[7] Isa-Beg Ishaković succeeded him as Bosnian governor.

Sultan Mehmed settled Turks from Amasya into Rumelia under the leadership of Minnetoğlu.[8]

Endowments

  • A mosque near where the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo was later built.[9]
  • Konuş Hisarı,[10] a bedestan and imaret at Tatar-Pazarcığı from where the town of Pazardzhik in Bulgaria evolved.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Salnâme-i Devlet-i Aliyye, p. 156.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Šabanović 1959, p. 40.
  3. 1 2 Tursun Beg 1978, p. 54.
  4. 1 2 Ismet Kasumović (1999). Školstvo i obrazovanje u Bosanskom ejaletu za vrijeme osmanske uprave. Islamski kulturni centar. pp. 36, 56, 78. ISBN 9789958804069.
  5. ↑ Gradeva, Rositsa (2004). Rumeli under the Ottomans, 15th–18th centuries: institutions and communities. Isis Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-975-428-271-9. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  6. ↑ Turcica. Vol. 28. Éditions Klincksieck. 1996. p. 282.
  7. ↑ Rifat Mulabegović (1997). Bosanska Posavina-dio cjelovite Bosne i Hercegovine: zbornik radova sa Okruglog Stola održanog 24. 11. 1994. godine u Sarajevu. Sabor Bosanske Posavine. p. 33.
  8. ↑ A. Ahat Andican (2009). Osmanlı'dan günümüze Türkiye ve Orta Asya. Doğan Kitap. p. 98. ISBN 978-605-111-402-6.
  9. ↑ Gazi Husrevbegova biblioteka u Sarajevu (1982). Anali Gazi Husrev-begove bibliotheke. Vol. 7–10. Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka. p. 190.
  10. ↑ “In Search of Vanished Ottoman Monuments in the Balkans: Minnetoğlu Mehmed Beg's Complex in Konuş Hisarı.” In Monuments, Patrons, Contexts: Papers on Ottoman Europe
  11. ↑ M. A. Cook (2014) [1970]. Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East. Routledge. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-136-04000-9.

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