Pasha Yiğit Bey

Pasha Yiğit Bey
Died ca. 1413
Buried at Skopje
Allegiance  Ottoman Empire
Years of service ca. 1390-1413
Relations Isak Beg and Turahan Bey (sons)

Pasha Yiğit Bey (Serbian: Pašait-beg, also Pasaythus or Basaitus d. 1413) was the first ruler of Skopsko Krajište (Macedonia) and Bosansko Krajište (part of Bosnia and Herzegovina), two frontier provinces on the border of the Ottoman Empire (but not under its direct control until 1463) from 1392 to 1413. He led the army that took Skopje (Üsküp), thus he was named conqueror of Skopje by the Ottoman Empire.[1]

He was born in Saruhan. Yiğit was the tutor of Isak-Beg, the second ruler of Bosansko Krajište, and he was father of Turahan Bey[1] an Ottoman general, conqueror of Thessaly and warden of its marches. He died in Skopje, and was buried in the yard of the notable Meddah mosque.

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Family tree

                         Pasha Yiğit Bey[2]
                            |
                   +--------+------------------+
                   |                           |
             Isak Beg                    Turahan Bey
                   |                           |
                   |                  +--------+----------+ 
       Isa-Beg Isaković[A]            |                   |    
           |                          Ahmed              Ömer
+----------+----------+                                   |                                            
|          |          |                            +------+------+ 
Mehmed     |        Ali Bey                        |             |
      Mehmed Bey                               Hasan Bey      Idris Bey

Notes

  1. ^ Adopted by Isak Beg. Isaković was of Slavic origin and member of Pavlovići family or Kosača

References

  1. ^ a b Houtsma (1993), p. 876
  2. ^ Houtsma (1993), p. 877

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