Harambaša
Harambaša (Serbian Cyrillic: Харамбаша)was the rank for the senior commander of a hajduk band (brigand gangs).
Etymology
It is derived from Turkish word for bandit leader (Turkish: haramibaşı; Turkish: haram - "Bandit" + Turkish: baş - "Head"), and was like some other Ottoman Turkish titles adopted into the irregular militias of Serbian and Croatian rebels (bimbaša, serdar, buljubaša).
Usage
- Serbian hajduks
- Military Frontier: Seressaners, Pandurs, and others.
- Serbian Revolution, most of the supreme commanders were former harambaša's
- Military of Principality of Montenegro
- Serbian Orthodox tradition of Čuvari Hristovog Groba ("Keepers of Christ's Grave") in Vrlika, Croatia
See also
- Harambašić, Serbian and Croatian surname
- Hussar, Hungarian origin light cavalry in Europe, word meaning "the best of twenty" or in Slavic etymology "pirate"
- Vojvoda, a civil and military administrator of Serbs in the Habsburg Monarchy
- Korun Aramija
- Ataman
References
- Hanka Vajzović 1999, Orijentalizmi u književnom djelu: lingvistička analiza, : "harambaša m (tur. harami basi) = vođa hajduka, odmetnika,"
- The Military Museum, 1968, Fourteen centuries of struggle for freedom, Belgrade (Serbia). Vojni muzej Jugoslovenske narodne armije, p. xxvii
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