Tekfur
Tekfur (
Asia Minor and Thrace
.
Origin and meaning
The origin of the title is uncertain. It has been suggested that it derives from the
Byzantine imperial name Nikephoros, via Arabic Nikfor. It is sometimes also said that it derives from the Armenian takavor, "king".[1][2] The term and its variants (tekvur, tekur, tekir, etc.[2]) began to be used by historians writing in Persian or Turkish in the 13th century, to refer to "denote Byzantine lords or governors of towns and fortresses in Anatolia (Bithynia, Pontus) and Thrace. It often denoted Byzantine frontier warfare leaders, commanders of akritai, but also Byzantine princes and emperors themselves", e.g. in the case of the Tekfur Sarayı , the Turkish name of the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus in Constantinople (mod. Istanbul).[1]
Thus the 13th-century Seljuk historian
Aegean islands.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Savvides 2000, pp. 413–414.
- ^ a b Çolak 2014, p. 9.
- ^ Çolak 2014, pp. 13ff..
- ^ Çolak 2014, p. 19.
- ^ Çolak 2014, p. 14.
Sources
- Çolak, Hasan (2014). "Tekfur, fasiliyus and kayser: Disdain, Negligence and Appropriation of Byzantine Imperial Titulature in the Ottoman World". In Hadjianastasis, Marios (ed.). Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination: Studies in Honour of Rhoads Murphey. BRILL. pp. 5–28. ISBN 9789004280915.
- Savvides, Alexios (2000). "Tekfur". In ISBN 978-90-04-11211-7.