Boluk-bashi

Boluk-bashi (Turkish: bölükbaşı) was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain (see Military of the Ottoman Empire). The holder was in command of a bölük, a sub-division of a regiment.^[1] It was higher than oda-bashi (lieutenant).

It was adopted by the Serbian hajduks and into the Serbian Revolutionary Army as buljubaša (Serbian Cyrillic: буљубаша).

Ottoman rank

Iliaș Colceag, Moldavian

Serbian hajduks

People such as Janko Gagić, Arsenije Loma, Zeka Buljubaša, Veljko Petrović and Petar Dobrnjac had the rank of buljubaša in the prelude and during the Serbian Revolution.

See also

Bölükbaşı (surname)

References

↑ Charles L. Wilkins (2010). Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700. BRILL. p. 293. ISBN 90-04-16907-5.

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