Malkoçoğlu family
Ottoman noble family
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The Malkoçoğlu family (Turkish: Malkoçoğulları, Malkoçoğlu ailesi) (Serbian: Malković) or Yahyali was one of the ghazi families of Serbian origin that led the akıncı corps in the Ottoman Empire between the 14th-16th centuries. They served mainly in the Balkan conquest of the empire. The members of the family usually served as beys, sanjak-beys, beylerbeys, pashas, and castle commanders. Later on, they joined the ranks of the Ottoman Army in various missions, and one of the descendants became a Grand Vizier.
| Malkoçoğulları | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Ottoman Empire |
| Founded | 14th century |
| Titles | ghazi ("warrior") akıncı ("raider") |
| Dissolution | 1604 |
History
The Battle of Maritsa (1371) was a disaster for the Serbian Empire, which resulted in several Serbian and Bulgarian lords becoming Ottoman vassals.[1] The Malkoçoğlu was a warrior family of Christian Serb origin, which became Muslim.[1][2] Malkoç, the eponymous founder, is alleged to have been one of the commanders of Sultan Murad I and Bayezid I, fighting at Kosovo (1389) and at Nicopolis (1396).
The further Ottoman expansion to the European frontiers was shared with semi-independent warriors, with the most notable being the four families of Evrenosoğulları, Mihaloğulları, both of which were of Anatolian Christian origin, Turahanoğulları of Turkish origin, and the Malkoçoğulları.[1] These four families made up the gazi (warrior) nobility.[3] Unpaid they lived and operated as raiders on the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, subsisting totally on plunder.
Members
- Duganli – Kara Osman's family
- Kara Osman Bey (Serbo-Croatian: Kara Osman-beg), cavalry commander,[4] sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Herzegovina whose türbe is in Kopčić near Bugojno.[5]
- Duganli Malkoç Bey (Serbo-Croatian: Malkoč-beg Karaosmanović; died 1562 or 1565), sanjakbey of Herzegovina
- Sons Džafer, Osman, Omer, Ibrahim, Alija, Husein and Hasan.
- Ahmed Pasha Dugalić, beylerbey of Bosnia (1598–99; 1604)
- Sons Džafer, Osman, Omer, Ibrahim, Alija, Husein and Hasan.
- Duganli Malkoç Bey (Serbo-Croatian: Malkoč-beg Karaosmanović; died 1562 or 1565), sanjakbey of Herzegovina
- Geneaology unclear
- Balı (died 1514), commander, had two sons, Ali Bey and Tur-Ali Bey, all three died at Chaldiran.[6][7]
- Ali Bey (died 1514)
- Tur-Ali Bey (died 1514)
- Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey, not the same as Yahyapaşazâde Bali Bey (fl. 1485–d. 1527).
- Bâlibey, probably one of the commanders under Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha that participated in the Safavid Campaign (1554–55).[8]
- Yavuz Ali Paşa, Grand Vizier from October 16, 1603 to July 26, 1604. His paternal uncle was Sali Agha, the Janissary agha in Bosnia.
Legacy
There is a Bosnian Muslim epic tradition about an Ottoman hero named Malkoč-bey.
- Malkoçoğlu Cem Sultan, 1969 Turkish action film