Uch Bey

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An Uç Bey or Uch Bey (

romanized: uc beğ, lit. 'marcher-lord') was the title given to semi-autonomous warrior chieftains during the Sultanate of Rum[1] and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire. As leaders of akinji warrior bands, they played a leading role during the conquests of the Byzantine Empire and the other Christian states of the Balkans
.

The term is analogous to Persian

dervishes. After Michael VIII Palaiologos removed the akritai and the land grants[2]
through which they survived, many Byzantine renegades went over to Ottoman service

Bosnia and the Morea.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Stanford J. Shaw, Ezel Kural Shaw, (1976), History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, p. 14
  2. ISBN 9780871698568
  3. ISBN 978-90-04-11211-7
    .
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