Ali Beg

Ali Beg or Ali Bey Evrenos-ogly[1] was Ottoman military commander in 15th century. He was one of the sons of Evrenos, an Ottoman general.

There was a rumour that Hunyadi was Ali Beg's groom.[2] Hunyadi became intimate of the king of Hungary after he fled from Ali.[3]

Ali Beg was sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Albania.[4] During the Ottoman campaigns of 1435 and 1436 Ali Beg, together with another Ottoman general Turakhan Beg, suppressed the revolt in Albania[5] led by Gjergj Arianiti and Andrew Thopia.[6]

He commanded an army which was sent to plunder Wallachia[1] and Transylvania in 1438.[7] In 1440 Ali Beg participated in the siege of Belgrade where he built a wall around the city and used it to hurl stones.[8] When Murad II died in 1451, Ali Beg was dispatched by Mehmed II to drawn Murad's son, Küçük (Little) Ahmed Çelebi.[9]

He was buried in the courtyard of the Gazi Evrenos mosque in Yenitsá (Larisa in Greece).[10]

References

  1. ^ a b Treptow, Kurt W. (2000). Vlad III Dracula: the life and times of the historical Dracula. Center of Romanian Studies. p. 203. ISBN 978-973-98392-2-8. http://books.google.com/books?id=lxcOAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Ali+Bey%22+albania+evrenos&dq=%22Ali+Bey%22+albania+evrenos&hl=en&ei=YgvyTYP8IITt-gbfkpGfAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg. Retrieved 10 June 2011. "Ali-bey Evrenos-ogly" 
  2. ^ Held, Joseph (1985). Hunyadi: legend and reality. East European Monographs. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-88033-070-1. http://books.google.com/books?ei=B8v0TaC0LsXZsgbF0IjRBg&ct=result&id=QuBnAAAAMAAJ&dq=hunyadi+ali+evrenos&q=groom#search_anchor. Retrieved 12 June 2011. "mentioned a rumor that Hunyadi may have served the Ottoman Ali, son of Evrenos, as a groom," 
  3. ^ Imber, Colin (2006), The Crusade of Varna, 1443–45, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7546-0144-9, http://books.google.com/books?id=xeuaoghuq3cC, "He fled from Ali bey and became intimate of the king of Hungary" 
  4. ^ Pollo, Stefanaq; Arben Puto, Kristo Frashëri, Skënder Anamali (1974) (in French). Histoire de l'Albanie, des origines à nos jours. Horvath. p. 78. ISBN 978-2-7171-0025-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=e3xpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22ali+bey+evrenos%22&dq=%22ali+bey+evrenos%22&hl=en&ei=V5QDTtaPG9CA-wa6k8zODQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK. Retrieved 23 June 2011. "Le sandjakbey d'Albanie, Ali bey Evrenos, partant de Gjirokastra, se porta aussitôt contre Arianite, mais les Turcs, selon le chroniqueur Oruc, furent battus à Buzurshek, dans la vallée du Shkumbin." 
  5. ^ Houtsma, Martijn Theodoor (1993) First encyclopaedia of Islam: 1913-1936 VIII Netherlands: E.J. Brill and Luzac and Co. p. 466 http://books.google.com/books?id=VJM3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA466&lpg=PA466&dq=Ottoman+generals+'All+and+Turakhan+effected+a+partial+submission+of+the+Albanians&source=bl&ots=Oo4NCf3qaO&sig=Zry9bUzPRrbEv879d0N-cjT-z80&hl=en&ei=vvDrTc3qF43ZsgbUscnnCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Ottoman%20generals%20'All%20and%20Turakhan%20effected%20a%20partial%20submission%20of%20the%20Albanians&f=false "...Ottoman campaigns of 1435 and 1436 when the Ottoman generals Ali and Turakhan effected a partially submission of Albanians" 
  6. ^ Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, p. 535, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5, http://books.google.gr/books?id=Hh0Bu8C66TsC, "In 1432 Andrew Thopia revolted against his Ottoman overlords ... inspired other Albanian chiefs, in particular George Arianite (Araniti) ... The revolt spread ... from region of Valona up to Skadar..." 
  7. ^ Babinger, Franz (1992), Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, p. 16, ISBN 978-0-691-01078-6, http://books.google.com/books?id=PPxC6rO7vvsC&pg=PA18&dq=%22ali+bey%22+evrenos&hl=en&ei=MlMETsLQAsO98gPs1JmxDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22ali%20bey%22%20evrenos&f=false 
  8. ^ Babinger, Franz (1992), Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, p. 18, ISBN 978-0-691-01078-6, http://books.google.com/books?id=PPxC6rO7vvsC&pg=PA18&dq=%22ali+bey%22+evrenos&hl=en&ei=MlMETsLQAsO98gPs1JmxDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22ali%20bey%22%20evrenos&f=false, "From the land side the besiegers, led jointly by the sultan himself and his trusty general Ali Bey, son of Evrenos, threw up a wall around Belgrade from which they hurled stones into the city" 
  9. ^ Babinger, Franz (1992), Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, p. 18, ISBN 978-0-691-01078-6, http://books.google.com/books?id=PPxC6rO7vvsC&pg=PA18&dq=%22ali+bey%22+evrenos&hl=en&ei=MlMETsLQAsO98gPs1JmxDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22ali%20bey%22%20evrenos&f=false, "Mehmed dispatched Ali Bey, the son of Evrenos, to the women's quarters to drown Küçük (Little) Ahmed Çelebi" 
  10. ^ Euangelou Vakalopoulos, Apostolos (1973). History of Macedonia, 1354-1833. Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 259. http://www.kroraina.com/knigi/en/av/av_7_2_c.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2011. "Yenitsá ... Of the smaller mosques the most important were those of Gazi Evrenos..Beneath a high dome with many windows, Ghazi Evrenos lay buried amid the tombs of those 'gazis' who died as 'martyrs' (in other words, who fell in battle). In the courtyard of this mosque were the tombs of Ali Bey and Gazi Isa Bey, the sons of Evrenos. ."