Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. IIEvliya Çelebi
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Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II
Evliya Çelebi
Caucasus, South -- Description and travel; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History
_Short account of the Conquests of Osmán Khán._
He conquered the castles of Bílejik, Ainegol, Kara-hissár, Inogí,
Iznik, Kopru-hissár, Elibád-hissár, Castel, Kítah, Bígha, &c. Osmán-beg
reigned twenty-one years after the death of Sultán Ala-ud-dín, and died
at the age of sixty-nine, after having reigned twenty-six years, at the
moment Brússa fell into the hands of his son.
_Conquests of Sultán Orkhán._
The Castles of Yází, Kogreh, and in Rúmelí, Yanbolí, Galibolí, Moderní,
Kojá Elí, Iznikmid, Belakabád, Brússa, Taraklí, Goinek, Karassí,
Bálikersí, Bergama, Adremyt, Ashlúna, Rodosto, and Búlair; the last was
conquered by Súleimán-páshá, Orkhán’s son, who lies buried there.
_Visit to Sultán Orkhán’s Tomb._
Sultán Orkhán died in the year 771 (1369), he is buried with his father
Osmán beneath a cupola in the mosque of the inner castle; he died,
after a reign of forty-one years, at the age of sixty-four; he was a
mild monarch, a father to the poor, and a warrior in the ways of God.
The divines of his time were David Kaissarí of Caramania, he was named
Kaissarí because he was brought up at Cæsarea, he commented on the text
of Mohay-ud-dín Arabí and was a second Taftazání in mystic science. He
was the first Professor (Muderris) of the College which Sultán Orkhán
built at Nicæa. Molá Ala-ud-dín commonly called Eswed Khojá (the black
master) who commented doctrinally on the work Moghní-ul-lebíb and
also on the book, Wikayit. Molá Jenderelí Kará Khalíl, who was first
created Kází-asker of Anatolia by Orkhán. Molá Hassan Kaissarí, one of
the greatest Jurisconsults; he wrote a good commentary on Andalusian
prosody, he was a disciple of Mohay-ud-dín, and completed his education
at Damascus.
_Notice of Hájí Begtásh, the great Saint._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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