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Beylerbey
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Beylerbey (from Beylerbeyi, Ottoman Turkish for "Bey of Beys", meaning "Commander of Commanders" or "Lord of Lords"; originally Beglerbeg(i) in older Turkic, is the Ottoman and Safavid title used for the highest rank in the hierarchy of provincial administrators (all military officers, at high levels generally pashas), in western terms a Governor-general, with authority over the Governors (often styled Wali) of several vilayets, generally (if not yet made) a Pasha (circa General), second only to the Grand Vizier.
The rank was used (with many different spelling variants) initially for very large parts of the empire – all of Anatolia and Rumelia – but in later centuries the title was devaulated by extending it to the governors of in various much smaller Ottoman eyalets.
Beylerbeyi is also the name of a neighbourhood of Istanbul, on the Asian side of the city, where the Beylerbeyi Palace is located.
- Bey, his jurisdiction Beylik
- Beqlare-beq, its non-equivalent cognate in Mongolian
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