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Evrenos

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Gazi Haci; Evrenos; Bey
Nickname(s)	Gazi Baba
Born	1288
Died	1417; Yenice-i Vardar, Ottoman Empire (now Giannitsa, Greece)
Buried	Mausoleum of Ghazi Evrenos, Giannitsa
Allegiance	Ottoman Empire
Battles / wars	Battle of Kosovo (1389); Battle of Nicopolis (1396); Battle of Maritsa ; Evrenos conquered Keşan, İpsala, Komotini, Feres, Xanthi, Maroneia, Serres, Monastir, and, in 1397, Corinth
Children	Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu

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Evrenos or Evrenuz^[a] (1288–1417, Yenice-i Vardar) was an Ottoman military commander.

He served as a general under Süleyman Pasha, Murad I, Bayezid I, Süleyman Çelebi and Mehmed I. Legends stating that he lived for 129 years and had an incredibly long career are inaccurate. These sources of confusion may be linked to the deeds of his descendants becoming intertwined with his own achievements in historical retellings.^[2] He was also known as Gavrinos, and believed to descend from a Greek family.^[3]

Biography

Οriginally, Gazi Evrenos was a noble dignitary, a bey in the principality of Karasi, joining the Ottomans only after their conquest of the beylik in 1345.^[4] A Greek legend^[5] maintains that Evrenos' father was a certain Ornos, renegade Byzantine governor of Bursa (Prusa) who defected to the Ottomans, and then on to Karasi, after the Siege of Bursa, in 1326.^[6] Stanford J. Shaw states that Evrenos was originally a Byzantine Greek feudal prince in Anatolia who had entered Ottoman service following the capture of Bursa, converted to Islam, and later became a leading military commander under both Orhan and Murat.^[7] Joseph von Hammer regarded Evrenos as simply a Byzantine Greek convert to Islam.^[8] Peter Sugar considers the family to be of Greek origin as well.^[9] Turkish sources report that the family was of Turkish origin.^[10]^[11] However, others dismiss this, noting that the Evrenos family were certainly of non-Turkish origin.^[12]

Evrenos led many crucial Ottoman campaigns and battles in Bulgaria, Thessaly, and Serbia. After having participated in the Ottoman conquest of Adrianopolis in 1362, Evrenos was appointed uc beği (frontier warlord) of Thessaly.^[1] Evrenos built a hospice in Komotini following his conquest of the area in 1363.^[13] Later, Evrenos also led the conquest of Serres.^[14]

The most famous battle Evrenos participated in was the shattering victory of the battle of Maritsa,^[15] where a small Ottoman force launched a devastating night raid and routed over 50,000 Serbian Empire soldiers.^[16]^[17] Later, Evrenos and his Akinjis fought in the Battle of Kosovo (1389) and the Battle of Nicopolis (1396). Evrenos conquered Keşan, İpsala,^[18] Komotini, Feres, Xanthi, Maroneia, Monastir, and in 1397, Corinth.^[2]^[19] He founded the town Yenice-i Vardar, modern Giannitsa.^[20]

Gazi Evrenos died at an advanced age in Yenice-i Vardar. He was buried in a mausoleum there in 1417. The mausoleum survives but was badly mutilated in 19th century and served for a time as an agricultural store.^[21]

Legacy

Mausoleum of Gazi Evrenos, Giannitsa. Before (left) and after (right) its restoration)

As one of the most successful Ottoman commanders, Evrenos acquired considerable wealth and founded numerous endowments (awqaf). Several monuments attributed to him survive in southeastern Europe. Of primary importance is his türbe (mausoleum) with its accompanying epitaph in Giannitsa.^[21] A hammam of Evrenos stands to the south of the mausoleum. Two other monuments stand in Greek Thrace.^[22]

Heritage & descendants

Some argue that the name Evrenos (also Evrenuz)^[23] is not Turkish. Heath Lowry theorized that the father of Hayreddin Barbarossa perhaps was a Sipahi cavalry served under Evrenos.^[24] What is certain is that Gazi Evrenos was from Ottoman Anatolia and first appears as bey.^[11] Lapavitsas even put forward that the founder, Piranki (Prangı) Isa Bey, might've been descended from the mercenaries of the Catalan Company, who razed the coasts of Asia Minor in the early 14th century.^[25] But modern historians generally reject these views. In light of a newly discovered vâkfiye (pious endowment charter) drawn up in 1456-1457 by İsa Beğ (one of Evrenos' seven sons), it posits a new explanation for the ethnic origins of the family. In this regard it advances the hypothesis that to his contemporaries 'Evrenos' was actually known as 'Evreniz/Evrenüz' or 'Avraniz/Avranüz.' Further, according to Heath W. Lowry, that his father's actual name was Branko/Pranko Lazart, which, according to Lowry, raises the possibility of a Serbian origin for the family.^[26] Others, such as Stanford J. Shaw, Dimitri Kitsikis, Peter Sugar, and Joseph Von Hammer propose a Greek origin for the family,^[7]^[8]^[9]^[27] with Shaw noting that he was a Byzantine feudal prince in Anatolia who converted to Islam and entered Ottoman service following the capture of Bursa.^[7]

Îsâ "Prangi" Bey, Evrenos' father, was, according to some sources, the son of Bozoklu Han, who joined Süleyman Pasha in his conquest of Rumelia. He is said to have been martyred in the village of Prangi (also known as Sırcık or Kırcık in Ottoman sources), a busy ferry-place on the Evros river about 6 km (4 mi) east from Didymoteicho, and that his tomb was built by his son Evrenos (Evrenuz) Bey.^[21]^[23]

Gazi Evrenos Bey was father of seven sons (Khidr-shah, Isa, Suleyman, Ali, Yakub, Barak, Begdje) and several daughters.^[28]

Together with the Mihaloğulları (from the Beylik of Karasi ), Malkoçoğulları (from Serbia), Ömerli/Ömeroğlu, and the Turahanoğulları, Evrenos' descendants, the Evrenosoğulları, constitute one of the Byzantine families that effectively formed the early Ottoman warrior nobility.^[19]

Notes

^ Byzantine sources mention him as Ἐβρενός, Ἀβρανέζης, Βρανέζης, Βρανεύς (?), Βρενέζ, Βρενέζης, Βρενές.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Trapp, Erich; Walther, Rainer; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja (1978). "Ἐβρενέζ". Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vol. 3. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 207–208. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.
^ ^a ^b Reinert, Steven W. (1991). "Evrenos". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 2. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 765. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
^ Abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François), Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1826, vol.2, p. 361
^ Brian Glyn Williams (2001). "Mystics, Nomads and Heretics: A History of the Diffusion of Muslim Syncretism from Central Asia to the Thirteenth-Century Turco-Byzantine Dobruca". International Journal of Turkish Studies. 7–8. University of Wisconsin: 13. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ Bent Holm; Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, eds. (2021). Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe. Hollitzer. p. 5. ISBN 9783990121252. According to a Greek legend, Evrenos Bey's father was the governor of Bursa and a convert
^ P. Voutierides (1912–13). "Neai Ellenikai Poleis-Yenitsa". Panathinaia. 25: 210.
^ ^a ^b ^c Shaw, Stanford J.; Shaw, Ezel Kural (1977). Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280–1808. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.
^ ^a ^b von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph (1836). Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches. Zweite verbesserte Ausgabe Bd. I - IV. Translated by Nerkez, Smailagić. Pesth: Hartlebens.
^ ^a ^b Sugar, Peter F. (1 July 2012). Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. University of Washington Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-295-80363-0.
^ Tokalak, İsmail (2006). Bizans-Osmanlı sentezi Bizans kültür ve kurumlarının Osmanlı üzerinde etkisi. Gülerboy Yayıncılık via Indiana University. p. 249. ISBN 9789944547208. Akınism is not unique to the Ottomans, nor is Evrenosoğulları, Mihaloğulları and Malkoçoğulları, who come from famous raider families, are of Turkish origin.
^ ^a ^b Nicolle, David (2011). Cross & Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th–15th Centuries). Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 9781844687602. According to some sources, mainly Greek, Evrenos son of Isa (Jesus) Bey Prangi came from a family of Byzantine origin which transferred its alliance to the Turkish Karasi rulers of western Anatolia and had converted to Islam in the 14th century. Other scholars, generally Turkish, claim that the family was of ancient Turkish origin. Certainly Gazi Evrenos was first mentioned as a middle ranking bey.
^ Lapavitsas, Costas; Cakiroglu, Pinar (8 August 2019). Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-78831-660-6.
^ Dana Arnold; Finbarr Barry Flood; Gulru Necipoglu (2017). A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (ebook). Wiley. p. 736. ISBN 9781119068570. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ "Sırpsındığı Savaşı". Turkcebilgi (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ Palairet, Michael R. (2016). Macedonia: A Voyage through History. Vol. 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443888493. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ Boskovic, Vladislav (2009). King Vukasin and the disastrous Battle of Marica. GRIN Verlag. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-640-49264-0.
^ The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropaedia. 1993. p. 855. ISBN 978-0-85229-571-7.
^ Shaw and Shaw, pages=20, 31
^ ^a ^b Mélikoff, I. (1965). "Ewrenos". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 720. OCLC 495469475.
^ Machiel Kiel, "Yenice Vardar (Vardar Yenicesi-Giannitsa): A forgotten Turkish cultural centre in Macedonia of the 15th and 16th century", Studia Byzantina et Neohellenica Neerlandica 3 (1973): 303.
^ ^a ^b ^c Demetriades, Vasilis (1976). "The Tomb of Ghāzī Evrenos Bey at Yenitsa and Its Inscription". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 39 (2): 328–332. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00050023. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 616797. S2CID 178591943.
^ Machiel Kiel, "The Oldest Monuments of Ottoman-Turkish Architecture in the Balkans: The Imaret and the Mosque of Ghazi Evrenos Bey in Gümülcine (Komotini) and the Evrenos Bey Khan in the Village of Ilıca/Loutra in Greek Thrace" Sanat Tarihi Yıllıġı, Kunsthhistorische Forschungen 12 (Istanbul, 1983): pp. 117-138.
^ ^a ^b "EVRENOSOĞULLARI". İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020.
^ Heath W. Lowry (2014). Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination: 8 Lingering Questions Regarding the Lineage, Life & Death of Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa. Brill. pp. 185–212. doi:10.1163/9789004283510_010. ISBN 9789004283510. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ Lapavitsas, Costas; Cakiroglu, Pinar (2019). Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781788316590. He [Evrenos] might have even been a descendant of a mercenary of the notorious Grand Catalan Company [...]
^ Lowry, Heath W. (2012). Fourteenth Century Ottoman Realities. İstanbul: Bahçeşehir University Press. p. 11.
^ Δ. Κιτσίκης, Ιστορία της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας: 1280-1924, Αθήνα 1988, p. 55-56.
^ Mélikoff, I. (1965). "Ewrenos Og̲h̲ullari̊". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 720. OCLC 495469475.

External links

Mausoleum of Gazi Evrenos in Giannitsa (Yenitsa), Greece.

[2] Byzantine sources mention him as Ἐβρενός, Ἀβρανέζης, Βρανέζης, Βρανεύς (?), Βρενέζ, Βρενέζης, Βρενές.^[1]

[plp-1] Trapp, Erich; Walther, Rainer; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja (1978). "Ἐβρενέζ". Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vol. 3. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 207–208. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.

[oxbyz-3] Reinert, Steven W. (1991). "Evrenos". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Vol. 2. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. p. 765. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.

[4] Abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François), Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1826, vol.2, p. 361

[5] Brian Glyn Williams (2001). "Mystics, Nomads and Heretics: A History of the Diffusion of Muslim Syncretism from Central Asia to the Thirteenth-Century Turco-Byzantine Dobruca". International Journal of Turkish Studies. 7–8. University of Wisconsin: 13. Retrieved 16 February 2022.

[boghholm-6] Bent Holm; Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, eds. (2021). Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe. Hollitzer. p. 5. ISBN 9783990121252. According to a Greek legend, Evrenos Bey's father was the governor of Bursa and a convert

[7] P. Voutierides (1912–13). "Neai Ellenikai Poleis-Yenitsa". Panathinaia. 25: 210.

[Shaw-8] Shaw, Stanford J.; Shaw, Ezel Kural (1977). Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280–1808. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.

[Hammer-Purgstall-9] von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph (1836). Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches. Zweite verbesserte Ausgabe Bd. I - IV. Translated by Nerkez, Smailagić. Pesth: Hartlebens.

[:2-10] Sugar, Peter F. (1 July 2012). Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804. University of Washington Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-295-80363-0.

[tokalak-11] Tokalak, İsmail (2006). Bizans-Osmanlı sentezi Bizans kültür ve kurumlarının Osmanlı üzerinde etkisi. Gülerboy Yayıncılık via Indiana University. p. 249. ISBN 9789944547208. Akınism is not unique to the Ottomans, nor is Evrenosoğulları, Mihaloğulları and Malkoçoğulları, who come from famous raider families, are of Turkish origin.

[nicolle-12] Nicolle, David (2011). Cross & Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th–15th Centuries). Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 9781844687602. According to some sources, mainly Greek, Evrenos son of Isa (Jesus) Bey Prangi came from a family of Byzantine origin which transferred its alliance to the Turkish Karasi rulers of western Anatolia and had converted to Islam in the 14th century. Other scholars, generally Turkish, claim that the family was of ancient Turkish origin. Certainly Gazi Evrenos was first mentioned as a middle ranking bey.

[13] Lapavitsas, Costas; Cakiroglu, Pinar (8 August 2019). Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-78831-660-6.

[A_Companion_to_Islamic_Art_and_Architecture-14] Dana Arnold; Finbarr Barry Flood; Gulru Necipoglu (2017). A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (ebook). Wiley. p. 736. ISBN 9781119068570. Retrieved 16 February 2022.

[Sirpsindigi_Savasi-15] "Sırpsındığı Savaşı". Turkcebilgi (in Turkish). Retrieved 16 February 2022.

[16] Palairet, Michael R. (2016). Macedonia: A Voyage through History. Vol. 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443888493. Retrieved 16 February 2022.

[boskovic-17] Boskovic, Vladislav (2009). King Vukasin and the disastrous Battle of Marica. GRIN Verlag. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-640-49264-0.

[newbritannica-18] The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropaedia. 1993. p. 855. ISBN 978-0-85229-571-7.

[19] Shaw and Shaw, pages=20, 31

[ei_ewrenos-20] Mélikoff, I. (1965). "Ewrenos". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 720. OCLC 495469475.

[21] Machiel Kiel, "Yenice Vardar (Vardar Yenicesi-Giannitsa): A forgotten Turkish cultural centre in Macedonia of the 15th and 16th century", Studia Byzantina et Neohellenica Neerlandica 3 (1973): 303.

[demetriades-22] Demetriades, Vasilis (1976). "The Tomb of Ghāzī Evrenos Bey at Yenitsa and Its Inscription". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 39 (2): 328–332. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00050023. ISSN 0041-977X. JSTOR 616797. S2CID 178591943.

[23] Machiel Kiel, "The Oldest Monuments of Ottoman-Turkish Architecture in the Balkans: The Imaret and the Mosque of Ghazi Evrenos Bey in Gümülcine (Komotini) and the Evrenos Bey Khan in the Village of Ilıca/Loutra in Greek Thrace" Sanat Tarihi Yıllıġı, Kunsthhistorische Forschungen 12 (Istanbul, 1983): pp. 117-138.

[islam2-24] "EVRENOSOĞULLARI". İslâm Ansiklopedisi. Archived from the original on 22 October 2020.

[Frontiers_of_the_Ottoman_Imagination-25] Heath W. Lowry (2014). Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination: 8 Lingering Questions Regarding the Lineage, Life & Death of Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa. Brill. pp. 185–212. doi:10.1163/9789004283510_010. ISBN 9789004283510. Retrieved 16 February 2022.

[lapacaki-26] Lapavitsas, Costas; Cakiroglu, Pinar (2019). Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781788316590. He [Evrenos] might have even been a descendant of a mercenary of the notorious Grand Catalan Company [...]

[27] Lowry, Heath W. (2012). Fourteenth Century Ottoman Realities. İstanbul: Bahçeşehir University Press. p. 11.

[:3-28] Δ. Κιτσίκης, Ιστορία της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας: 1280-1924, Αθήνα 1988, p. 55-56.

[ei_ewrenos_oghullari-29] Mélikoff, I. (1965). "Ewrenos Og̲h̲ullari̊". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 720. OCLC 495469475.

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-He served as a general under [[Suleyman Pasha (son of Orhan)|Süleyman Pasha]], [[Murad I]], [[Bayezid I]], [[Süleyman Çelebi]] and [[Mehmed I]]. Legends stating that he lived for 129 years and had an incredibly long career are thought to be inaccurate. These sources of confusion may be linked to the deeds of his descendants becoming intertwined with his own achievements in historical retellings.<ref name="oxbyz">{{ODB | last=Reinert | first=Steven W. | title=Evrenos | volume=2 | page=765}}</ref> He was also known as Gavrinos, and believed to descent from a Greek family.<ref>[https://books.google.gr/books?id=lE9SAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA361&lpg=PA361&dq=%22gavrinos%22&source=bl&ots=IrvO_z4gak&sig=ACfU3U0cmc8_YQ8j8DOkgDBczu5E1Kj19g&hl=el&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv85es8fPtAhWJ3eAKHU10AQg4ChDoATAOegQICBAC#v=onepage&q=%22gavrinos%22&f=false Abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François), Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1826, vol.2, p. 361]</ref>
+He served as a general under [[Suleyman Pasha (son of Orhan)|Süleyman Pasha]], [[Murad I]], [[Bayezid I]], [[Süleyman Çelebi]] and [[Mehmed I]]. Legends stating that he lived for 129 years and had an incredibly long career are inaccurate. These sources of confusion may be linked to the deeds of his descendants becoming intertwined with his own achievements in historical retellings.<ref name="oxbyz">{{ODB | last=Reinert | first=Steven W. | title=Evrenos | volume=2 | page=765}}</ref> He was also known as Gavrinos, and believed to descend from a Greek family.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lE9SAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22gavrinos%22&pg=PA361 Abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François), Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1826, vol.2, p. 361]</ref>
 == Biography ==
+[[File:Evrenos' Koran.jpg|thumb|A copy of the Koran that belonged to Evrenos]]
-Οriginally, Gazi Evrenos was a noble dignitary, a bey in the [[Karasids|principality of Karasi]], joining the Ottomans only after their conquest of the beylik in 1345.<ref name="International Journal of Turkish Studies Volumes 7-8">{{cite book |title=International Journal of Turkish Studies Volumes 7-8 |date=2001|type=Turkey -- Periodicals, Turkey -- Periodicals -- History, Turkish antiquities -- Periodicals |publisher=University of Wisconsin |page=13 |url=https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/International_Journal_of_Turkish_Studies/hagTAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq= |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> A persistent Greek legend<ref name="boghholm">{{cite book|editor=Bent Holm, Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imagined_Embodied_and_Actual_Turks_in_Ea/pqY5EAAAQBAJ?hl|title=Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe|page=5|publisher=[[Hollitzer]]|year=2021|isbn=9783990121252|quote=According to a Greek legend, Evrenos Bey's father was the governor of Bursa and a convert}}</ref> maintains that Evrenos' father was a certain Ornos, renegade [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] governor of [[Bursa]] (Prusa) who defected to the Ottomans, and then on to Karasi, after the [[Siege of Bursa]], in 1326.<ref>P. Voutierides, “Neai Ellenikai Poleis-Yenitsa” ''Panathinaia 25'' (1912-13), p. 210.</ref> [[Stanford J. Shaw]] and [[Joseph von Hammer]] regarded Evrenos as a Byzantine convert to Islam.<ref>Stanford J. Shaw: History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280–1808. Cambridge University Press, 1977.</ref><ref>Joseph von Hammer: Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches. Zweite verbesserte Ausgabe Bd. I - IV. Hartlebens, Pesth 1836. (Serbo-Croatian edition by [[Nerkez Smailagić]]. Zagreb, 1979.)</ref> Turkish sources report that the family was of Turkish origin.<ref name="tokalak">{{cite book|last=Tokalak|first=İsmail|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bizans_Osmanl%C4%B1_sentezi/bZWgAAAAMAAJ?hl|title=Bizans-Osmanlı sentezi Bizans kültür ve kurumlarının Osmanlı üzerinde etkisi|page=249|publisher=Gülerboy Yayıncılık via [[Indiana University]]|year=2006|isbn=9789944547208|quote=Akınism is not unique to the Ottomans, nor is Evrenosoğulları, Mihaloğulları and Malkoçoğulları, who come from famous raider families, are of Turkish origin.}}</ref><ref name="nicolle">{{cite book|last=Nicolle|first=David|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cross_Crescent_in_the_Balkans/xgXMDwAAQBAJ?hl|title=Cross & Crescent in the Balkans The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th–15th Centuries)|page=|publisher=[[Pen & Sword Books]]|year=2011|isbn=9781844687602|quote=According to some sources, mainly Greek, Evrenos son of Isa (Jesus) Bey Prangi came from a family of Byzantine origin which transferred its alliance to the Turkish Karasi rulers of western Anatolia and had converted to Islam in the 14th century. Other scholars, generally Turkish, claim that the family was of ancient Turkish origin. Certainly Gazi Evrenos was first mentioned as a middle ranking ''[[bey]]''.}}</ref> It is said that they belonged to the Akkoyunlu Turks, or possibly to the Uran tribe of the [[Kipchaks]].<ref name="islam2">{{cite web | title = EVRENOSOĞULLARI | url = https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/evrenosogullari | website = [[İslâm Ansiklopedisi]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022032720/https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/evrenosogullari |archive-date= 22 October 2020}}</ref><ref name="islam1">{{cite book|author=|editor=|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/T%C3%BCrkiye_Diyanet_Vakf%C4%B1_%C4%B0sl%C3%A2m_ansiklop/WD4wAAAAYAAJ?hl|title=Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı İslâm ansiklopedisi Volume 27|page=539|publisher=[[İslâm Ansiklopedisi|Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, İslâm Ansiklopedisi Genel Müdürlüğü]]|year=1988|isbn=9782840502586}}</ref> Heath Lowry theorized that the father of [[Hayreddin Barbarossa]] perhaps was a [[Sipahi]] cavalry served under Evrenos.<ref name="Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination:  8 Lingering Questions Regarding the Lineage, Life & Death of Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa">{{cite book |author1=Heath W. Lowry |title=Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination: 8 Lingering Questions Regarding the Lineage, Life & Death of Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa |date=2014 |type= History General Middle East and Islamic Studies History & Culture Cartography Religion Ottoman & Turkish Studies |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004283510 |pages=185–212 |doi=10.1163/9789004283510_010 |url=:     https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004283510_010 |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
+Οriginally, Gazi Evrenos was a noble dignitary, a bey in the [[Karasids|principality of Karasi]], joining the Ottomans only after their conquest of the beylik in 1345.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Brian Glyn Williams |title=Mystics, Nomads and Heretics: A History of the Diffusion of Muslim Syncretism from Central Asia to the Thirteenth-Century Turco-Byzantine Dobruca |journal=International Journal of Turkish Studies |volume=7-8 |date=2001 |publisher=University of Wisconsin |page=13 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106019234001&seq=21 |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> A Greek legend<ref name="boghholm">{{cite book |editor1=Bent Holm |editor2=Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqY5EAAAQBAJ |title=Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe |page=5 |publisher=[[Hollitzer]] |year=2021 |isbn=9783990121252 |quote=According to a Greek legend, Evrenos Bey's father was the governor of Bursa and a convert}}</ref> maintains that Evrenos' father was a certain Ornos, renegade [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] governor of [[Bursa]] (Prusa) who defected to the Ottomans, and then on to Karasi, after the [[Siege of Bursa]], in 1326.<ref>{{cite journal |author=P. Voutierides |title=Neai Ellenikai Poleis-Yenitsa |journal=Panathinaia |volume=25 |date=1912–13 |page=210 }}</ref> [[Stanford J. Shaw]] states that Evrenos was originally a [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine Greek]] feudal prince in Anatolia who had entered Ottoman service following the capture of Bursa, converted to Islam, and later became a leading military commander under both Orhan and Murat.<ref name=Shaw>{{cite book |author1=Shaw, Stanford J. |author2=Shaw, Ezel Kural |series=History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey |volume=1 |title=Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280–1808 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1977}}</ref> [[Joseph von Hammer]] regarded Evrenos as simply a [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine Greek]] convert to Islam.<ref name="Hammer-Purgstall">{{cite book |author=von Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph |title=Geschichte des Osmanischen Reiches. Zweite verbesserte Ausgabe Bd. I - IV. |publisher=Hartlebens |location=Pesth |year=1836 |translator-last1=Nerkez |translator-first1=Smailagić }}</ref> [[Peter Sugar]] considers the family to be of Greek origin as well.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Sugar |first=Peter F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYsVCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 |title=Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 |date=2012-07-01 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0-295-80363-0 |pages=25 |language=en}}</ref> Turkish sources report that the family was of Turkish origin.<ref name="tokalak">{{cite book |last=Tokalak |first=İsmail |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZWgAAAAMAAJ |title=Bizans-Osmanlı sentezi Bizans kültür ve kurumlarının Osmanlı üzerinde etkisi |page=249 |publisher=Gülerboy Yayıncılık via [[Indiana University]] |year=2006 |isbn=9789944547208 |quote=Akınism is not unique to the Ottomans, nor is Evrenosoğulları, Mihaloğulları and Malkoçoğulları, who come from famous raider families, are of Turkish origin.}}</ref><ref name="nicolle">{{cite book |last=Nicolle |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xgXMDwAAQBAJ |title=Cross & Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th–15th Centuries) |publisher=[[Pen & Sword Books]] |year=2011 |isbn=9781844687602| quote=According to some sources, mainly Greek, Evrenos son of Isa (Jesus) Bey Prangi came from a family of Byzantine origin which transferred its alliance to the Turkish Karasi rulers of western Anatolia and had converted to Islam in the 14th century. Other scholars, generally Turkish, claim that the family was of ancient Turkish origin. Certainly Gazi Evrenos was first mentioned as a middle ranking ''[[bey]]''.}}</ref> However, others dismiss this, noting that the Evrenos family were certainly of non-Turkish origin.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lapavitsas |first1=Costas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-vWlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT91 |title=Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia |last2=Cakiroglu |first2=Pinar |date=2019-08-08 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-78831-660-6 |pages=91 |language=en}}</ref>
-Evrenos has led many crucial Ottoman campaigns and battles in [[Bulgaria]], [[Thessaly]], and [[Serbia]]. After having participated in the Ottoman conquest of [[Adrianopolis]] in 1362, Evrenos was appointed to ''[[uc beği]]'' (frontier warlord) of Thessaly.<ref name="plp" /> Evrenos built a hospice in [[Komotini]] following his conquest of the area in 1363.<ref name="A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture">{{cite book |author1=Dana Arnold |author2=Finbarr Barry Flood |author3=Gulru Necipoglu Contributor: Dana Arnold |title=A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture |date=2017|type=Art / History / General, Architecture / Buildings / Religious, Art / Middle Eastern, Islamic architecture, Islamic art |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9781119068570 |page=736 |url=https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/A_Companion_to_Islamic_Art_and_Architect/6YgpDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en |format=ebook}}</ref> Later, Evrenos also lead the conquest of [[Serres]].<ref name="Sirpsindigi Savasi">{{cite web |title=Sırpsındığı Savaşı |url=https://www.turkcebilgi.com/s%C4%B1rps%C4%B1nd%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1_sava%C5%9F%C4%B1 |website=Turkcebilgi |publisher=turkcebilgi |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=tr}}</ref>
+Evrenos led many crucial Ottoman campaigns and battles in [[Bulgaria]], [[Thessaly]], and [[Serbia]]. After having participated in the Ottoman conquest of [[Adrianopolis]] in 1362, Evrenos was appointed  ''[[uc beği]]'' (frontier warlord) of Thessaly.<ref name="plp" /> Evrenos built a hospice in [[Komotini]] following his conquest of the area in 1363.<ref name="A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture">{{cite book |author1=Dana Arnold |author2=Finbarr Barry Flood |author3=Gulru Necipoglu |title=A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture |date=2017 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9781119068570 |page=736 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YgpDwAAQBAJ |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en |format=ebook}}</ref> Later, Evrenos also led the conquest of [[Serres]].<ref name="Sirpsindigi Savasi">{{cite web |title=Sırpsındığı Savaşı |url=https://www.turkcebilgi.com/s%C4%B1rps%C4%B1nd%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1_sava%C5%9F%C4%B1 |website=Turkcebilgi |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=tr}}</ref>
-The most famous battle which of Evrenos participated in the shattering victory of the [[battle of Maritsa]],<ref name="Macedonia A Voyage through History (Vol. 2, From the Fifteenth Century to the Present) · Volume 2">{{cite book |author1=Michael R. Palairet |title=Macedonia A Voyage through History (Vol. 2, From the Fifteenth Century to the Present) · Volume 2 |date=2016|type=History / General, Political Science / History & Theory, Electronic books, Macedonia -- History |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781443888493 |url=https://www.google.co.id/books/edition/Macedonia/nyb5DAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> where the 800 Ottoman warriors launched a devastating night raid where they defeated 70,000 [[Serbian Empire]] soldiers.<ref name = "boskovic">{{cite book| last = Boskovic| first = Vladislav| title = King Vukasin and the disastrous Battle of Marica| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=oTdPlvMRYeUC&pg=PA11 | year = 2009| publisher = GRIN Verlag| isbn = 978-3-640-49264-0| page = 11 }}</ref><ref name = "newbritannica">{{cite book| title = The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropaedia| url = https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia07ency| url-access = registration| year = 1993| publisher = Encyclopædia Britannica| isbn = 978-0-85229-571-7| page = [https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia07ency/page/855 855] }}</ref> Later, Evrenos and his ''[[Akinji]]s'' fought in the [[Battle of Kosovo]] (1389) and the [[Battle of Nicopolis]] (1396). Evrenos conquered [[Keşan]], [[İpsala]],<ref name="History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808">{{cite book |author1=Stanford J. Shaw |author2=Ezel Kural Shaw |title=History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280-1808 |date=1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521291637 |pages=20,31 |edition=illustrated, reprint |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E9-YfgVZDBkC |access-date=16 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> [[Komotini]], [[Feres, Evros|Feres]], [[Xanthi]], [[Maroneia]], [[Bitola|Monastir]], and, in 1397, [[Corinth]].<ref name="oxbyz" /><ref name="ei_ewrenos">{{ EI2 | last=Mélikoff | first=I. | title=Ewrenos | volume=2 | page=720 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_2214}}</ref> He founded the town [[Giannitsa|Yenice-i Vardar]], modern [[Giannitsa]].<ref>Machiel Kiel, "Yenice Vardar (Vardar Yenicesi-Giannitsa): A forgotten Turkish cultural centre in Macedonia of the 15th and 16th century,” ''Studia Byzantina et Neohellenica Neerlandica 3'' (1973): 303.</ref>
+The most famous battle Evrenos participated in was the shattering victory of the [[battle of Maritsa]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Palairet |first=Michael R.  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyb5DAAAQBAJ |title=Macedonia: A Voyage through History |volume=2 |date=2016 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781443888493 |language=en |access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref> where a small Ottoman force  launched a devastating night raid and routed over 50,000 [[Serbian Empire]] soldiers.<ref name="boskovic">{{cite book |last=Boskovic |first=Vladislav |title=King Vukasin and the disastrous Battle of Marica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTdPlvMRYeUC&pg=PA11 |year=2009 |publisher=GRIN Verlag |isbn=978-3-640-49264-0 |page=11}}</ref><ref name="newbritannica">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia07ency |title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica: Micropaedia |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-85229-571-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia07ency/page/855 855] |url-access=registration}}</ref> Later, Evrenos and his ''[[Akinji]]s'' fought in the [[Battle of Kosovo]] (1389) and the [[Battle of Nicopolis]] (1396). Evrenos conquered [[Keşan]], [[İpsala]],<ref>Shaw and Shaw, pages=20, 31</ref> [[Komotini]], [[Feres, Evros|Feres]], [[Xanthi]], [[Maroneia]], [[Bitola|Monastir]], and in 1397, [[Corinth]].<ref name="oxbyz" /><ref name="ei_ewrenos">{{ EI2 | last=Mélikoff | first=I. | title=Ewrenos | volume=2 | page=720 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_2214}}</ref> He founded the town Yenice-i Vardar, modern [[Giannitsa]].<ref>Machiel Kiel, "Yenice Vardar (Vardar Yenicesi-Giannitsa): A forgotten Turkish cultural centre in Macedonia of the 15th and 16th century", ''Studia Byzantina et Neohellenica Neerlandica 3'' (1973): 303.</ref>
-Gazi Evrenos died at an advanced age in Yenice-i Vardar. He was buried in a mausoleum there in 1417. The mausoleum survives but was badly mutilated in 19th century and served for a time as an agricultural store.<ref name="demetriades" /> Among the numerous descendants of Evrenos, apparently the memory of some has dived into oblivion, as their deeds got incorporated into the achievements of their illustrious forefather. This explains the legendary, yet unlikely, 129-year lifespan of Evrenos.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
+Gazi Evrenos died at an advanced age in Yenice-i Vardar. He was buried in a mausoleum there in 1417. The mausoleum survives but was badly mutilated in 19th century and served for a time as an agricultural store.<ref name="demetriades" />
 == Legacy ==
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-As one of the most successful Ottoman commanders, Evrenos acquired a considerable amount of wealth and founded numerous endowments (''[[waqf|awqaf]]''). Several monuments attributed to him survive in southeastern Europe. Of primary importance is his mausoleum, or [[türbe]], with its accompanying epitaph in Giannitsa.<ref name="demetriades" /> A [[Turkish bath|hammam]] of Evrenos stands to the south of the mausoleum. Two other monuments stand in Greek Thrace.<ref>Machiel Kiel, “The Oldest Monuments of Ottoman-Turkish Architecture in the Balkans: The Imaret and the Mosque of Ghazi Evrenos Bey in Gümülcine (Komotini) and the Evrenos Bey Khan in the Village of Ilıca/Loutra in Greek Thrace” ''Sanat Tarihi Yıllıġı, Kunsthhistorische Forschungen 12'' (Istanbul, 1983): pp. 117-138.</ref>
+As one of the most successful Ottoman commanders, Evrenos acquired considerable wealth and founded numerous endowments (''[[waqf|awqaf]]''). Several monuments attributed to him survive in southeastern Europe. Of primary importance is his ''[[türbe]]'' (mausoleum) with its accompanying epitaph in Giannitsa.<ref name="demetriades" /> A [[Turkish bath|hammam]] of Evrenos stands to the south of the mausoleum. Two other monuments stand in Greek Thrace.<ref>Machiel Kiel, "The Oldest Monuments of Ottoman-Turkish Architecture in the Balkans: The Imaret and the Mosque of Ghazi Evrenos Bey in Gümülcine (Komotini) and the Evrenos Bey Khan in the Village of Ilıca/Loutra in Greek Thrace" ''Sanat Tarihi Yıllıġı, Kunsthhistorische Forschungen 12'' (Istanbul, 1983): pp. 117-138.</ref>
-The inhabitants of Gianitsa (Ottoman: Yenice Vardar) down to the early 20th century displayed reverence for "Gazi Baba", that is "papa Gazi".{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
 == Heritage & descendants ==
-[[Image:20120105 exterior Imaret Komotini Western Thrace Greece 1.jpg|thumb|200px|Imaret of [[Komotini]], Thrace, Greece.]]
+[[Image:20120105 exterior Imaret Komotini Western Thrace Greece 1.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Imaret of Komotini]], Thrace, Greece.]]
-Some argue that the name Evrenos (also Evrenuz)<ref name="islam2"/> is not Turkish.<ref name="lapacaki"/> What is certain is that Gazi Evrenos was from Ottoman Anatolia and first appears as ''[[bey]]''.<ref name="nicolle"/> Lapavitsas even put forward that the founder, Piranki (Prangı) ''Isa'' Bey, might've been descended from the mercenaries of the [[Catalan Company]], who razed the coasts of Asia Minor in the early 14th century.<ref name="lapacaki">{{cite book|last1=Lapavitsas|first1=Costas|last2=Cakiroglu|first2=Pinar|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Capitalism_in_the_Ottoman_Balkans/_vWlDwAAQBAJ?hl|title=Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia|page=|publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]]|year=2019|isbn=9781788316590|quote=He [Evrenos] might have even been a descendant of a mercenary of the notorious Grand Catalan Company [...]}}</ref> But modern historians generally reject these views. In light of a newly discovered vâkfiye (pious endowment charter) drawn up in 1456-1457 by İsa Beğ (one of Evrenos’ seven sons), it posits a new explanation for the ethnic origins of the family. In this regard it advances the hypothesis that to his contemporaries ‘Evrenos’ was actually known as ‘Evreniz/Evrenüz’ or ‘Avraniz/Avranüz.’ Further, that his father's actual name was: Branko/Pranko Lazart, a fact which raises the intriguing possibility of a Serbian origin for the family.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lowry |first1=Heath W. |title=Fourteenth Century Ottoman Realities |date=2012 |publisher=Bahçeşehir University Press |location=İstanbul |page=11 |url=https://www.academia.edu/9463420}}</ref>
+Some argue that the name Evrenos (also Evrenuz)<ref name="islam2">{{cite web |title=EVRENOSOĞULLARI |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/evrenosogullari |website=[[İslâm Ansiklopedisi]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022032720/https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/evrenosogullari |archive-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> is not Turkish. Heath Lowry theorized that the father of [[Hayreddin Barbarossa]] perhaps was a [[Sipahi]] cavalry served under Evrenos.<ref name="Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination">{{cite book |author1=Heath W. Lowry |url=https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004283510_010 |title=Frontiers of the Ottoman Imagination: 8 Lingering Questions Regarding the Lineage, Life & Death of Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa |date=2014 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004283510 |pages=185–212 |language=en |doi=10.1163/9789004283510_010 |access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref> What is certain is that Gazi Evrenos was from Ottoman Anatolia and first appears as ''[[bey]]''.<ref name="nicolle"/> Lapavitsas even put forward that the founder, Piranki (Prangı) ''Isa'' Bey, might've been descended from the mercenaries of the [[Catalan Company]], who razed the coasts of Asia Minor in the early 14th century.<ref name="lapacaki">{{cite book|last1=Lapavitsas|first1=Costas|last2=Cakiroglu|first2=Pinar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vWlDwAAQBAJ |title=Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |year=2019 |isbn=9781788316590 |quote=He [Evrenos] might have even been a descendant of a mercenary of the notorious Grand Catalan Company [...]}}</ref> But modern historians generally reject these views. In light of a newly discovered vâkfiye (pious endowment charter) drawn up in 1456-1457 by İsa Beğ (one of Evrenos' seven sons), it posits a new explanation for the ethnic origins of the family. In this regard it advances the hypothesis that to his contemporaries 'Evrenos' was actually known as 'Evreniz/Evrenüz' or 'Avraniz/Avranüz.' Further, according to [[Heath W. Lowry]], that his father's actual name was Branko/Pranko Lazart, which, according to Lowry, raises the possibility of a [[Serbians|Serbian]] origin for the family.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lowry |first1=Heath W. |title=Fourteenth Century Ottoman Realities |date=2012 |publisher=Bahçeşehir University Press |location=İstanbul |page=11 |url=https://www.academia.edu/9463420}}</ref> Others, such as [[Stanford J. Shaw]], [[Dimitri Kitsikis]], [[Peter Sugar]], and [[Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall|Joseph Von Hammer]] propose a [[Greeks|Greek]] origin for the family,<ref name="Shaw" /><ref name="Hammer-Purgstall" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">Δ. Κιτσίκης, Ιστορία της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας: 1280-1924, Αθήνα 1988, p. 55-56.</ref> with Shaw noting that he was a Byzantine feudal prince in Anatolia who converted to Islam and entered Ottoman service following the capture of Bursa.<ref name="Shaw" />
-Îsâ "Prangi" Bey, Evrenos' father, was, according to some sources, the son of Bozoklu Han, who joined [[Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan)|Süleyman Pasha]] in his conquest of [[Rumelia]]. He is said to have been martyred in the village of [[Prangi]] (also known as Sırcık or Kırcık in Ottoman sources), a busy ferry-place on the [[Maritsa|Evros]] river about {{convert|6|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east from [[Didymoteicho]], and that his tomb was built by his son Evrenos (Evrenuz) Bey.<ref name="demetriades">{{Cite journal| last=Demetriades | first=Vasilis | title=The Tomb of Ghāzī Evrenos Bey at Yenitsa and Its Inscription | journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London | volume=39 | issue=2 | year=1976 | pages=328–332 | issn=0041-977X | doi=10.1017/S0041977X00050023 | jstor=616797| s2cid=178591943 }}</ref><ref name="islam2"/>
+Îsâ "Prangi" Bey, Evrenos' father, was, according to some sources, the son of Bozoklu Han, who joined [[Süleyman Pasha (son of Orhan)|Süleyman Pasha]] in his conquest of [[Rumelia]]. He is said to have been martyred in the village of [[Prangi]] (also known as Sırcık or Kırcık in Ottoman sources), a busy ferry-place on the [[Maritsa|Evros]] river about {{convert|6|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east from [[Didymoteicho]], and that his tomb was built by his son Evrenos (Evrenuz) Bey.<ref name="demetriades">{{Cite journal |last=Demetriades |first=Vasilis |title=The Tomb of Ghāzī Evrenos Bey at Yenitsa and Its Inscription |journal=Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |volume=39 |issue=2 |year=1976 |pages=328–332 |issn=0041-977X |doi=10.1017/S0041977X00050023 |jstor=616797 |s2cid=178591943}}</ref><ref name="islam2" />
 Gazi Evrenos Bey was father of seven sons (Khidr-shah, Isa, Suleyman, [[Ali Bey Evrenosoglu|Ali]], Yakub, Barak, Begdje) and several daughters.<ref name="ei_ewrenos_oghullari">{{ EI2 | last=Mélikoff | first=I. | title=Ewrenos Og̲h̲ullari̊ | volume = 2 | page=720 | url = http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_2215}}</ref>
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 Together with the [[Mihaloğulları]] (from the Beylik of Karasi ), [[Malkoçoğulları]] (from Serbia), Ömerli/Ömeroğlu, and the [[Turahan Bey|Turahanoğulları]], Evrenos' descendants, the Evrenosoğulları, constitute one of the Byzantine families that effectively formed the early Ottoman warrior nobility.<ref name="ei_ewrenos" />
-==References==
+== See also ==
-{{Reflist}}
-==External links==
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522160411/http://www.pella.gr/gianitsa-gaziengl.htm Mausoleum of Gazi Evrenos] in Giannitsa (Yenitsa), Greece.
-==See also==
 * [[Lala Shahin Pasha]]
 * [[Çandarlı Kara Halil Hayreddin Pasha]]
 * [[Umur the Lion]]
+== Notes ==
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+== References ==
+{{Reflist}}
+== External links ==
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080522160411/http://www.pella.gr/gianitsa-gaziengl.htm Mausoleum of Gazi Evrenos] in Giannitsa (Yenitsa), Greece.
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