Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey

Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey
Allegiance Ottoman Empire
Years of service 15th century
Rank sanjak-bey (provincial governor)

Minnetoğlu Mehmed Bey (Serbo-Croatian: Mehmed-beg Minetović; fl. 1463–64) was an Ottoman general and the first governor of the Sanjak of Bosnia, serving Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (r. 1451–81)

Minnetoğlu participated in the Bosnian campaign led by Sultan Mehmed in 1463–64[1] (1460–61 according to chronicler Tursun Beg).[2] According to some Bosnian sources he was at that time the governor of the Sanjak of Smederevo,[1] or "lord of the Serbian land",[3] however, other sources treat general Ali Bey Mihaloğlu as the sanjak-bey of Smederevo, appointed in 1462–63.[4] When the sultan left the siege of Jajce to march against retreating Hungarians, Minnetoğlu was placed in charge of the siege.[2] After the second[1] siege in 1463[3] or 1464,[1] the sultan appointed Minnetoğlu as the first sanjak-bey (provincial governor) of the Sanjak of Bosnia, at first seated at Jajce (later Sarajevo).[5] Minnetoğlu sent 500 cavalry to the Ottoman camp at Zvornik, fighting the besieging Hungarians.[6] Isa-Beg Ishaković succeeded him as Bosnian governor.

Sultan Mehmed settled Tatars from Amasya into Rumelia under the leadership of Minnetoğlu.[7]

Endowments

  • A mosque near where the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo was later built.[8]
  • Konuş Hisarı,[9] a bedestan and imaret at Tatar-Pazarcığı from where the town of Pazardzhik in Bulgaria evolved.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Šabanović 1959, p. 40.
  2. 1 2 Tursun Beg 1978, p. 54.
  3. 1 2 Ismet Kasumović (1999). Školstvo i obrazovanje u Bosanskom ejaletu za vrijeme osmanske uprave. Islamski kulturni centar. pp. 36, 56, 78.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Turcica. 28. Éditions Klincksieck. 1996. p. 282.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ A. Ahat Andican (2009). Osmanlı'dan günümüze Türkiye ve Orta Asya. Doğan Kitap. p. 98. ISBN 978-605-111-402-6.
  8. ↑ Gazi Husrevbegova biblioteka u Sarajevu (1982). Anali Gazi Husrev-begove bibliotheke. 7–10. Gazi Husrev-begova biblioteka. p. 190.
  9. ↑ “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
  10. ↑ M. A. Cook (2014) [1970]. Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East. Routledge. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-136-04000-9.

Sources

  • Konstantin Mihailović (1975). Memoirs of a Janissary. Published under the auspices of the Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, American Council of Learned Societies, by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan.
  • Tursun Beg (1978). The History of Mehmed the Conqueror. Bibliotheca Islamica. ISBN 978-0-88297-018-9.
  • Šabanović, Hazim (1959). Bosanski pašaluk: postanak i upravna podjela. Oslobodenje.
New title Sanjak-bey of Bosnia
ca. 1464–?		 Succeeded by
Isa-Beg Ishaković
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