page_title: Beylerbey
hierarchical_section_title: Beylerbey
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Ottoman Empire in the 1600s (1609). Source: Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire at Google Books By Gábor Ágoston, Bruce Alan Masters
context_page_description: Beylerbey or Beylerbeyi was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Seljuks of Rum and the Ilkhanids to Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Empire. Initially designating a commander-in-chief, it eventually came to be held by senior provincial governors. In Ottoman usage, where the rank survived the longest, it designated the governors-general of some of the largest and most important provinces, although in later centuries it became devalued into a mere honorific title. Its equivalents in Arabic were amir al-umara, and in Persian, mir-i miran.
  The title was also used by the Khans of the Indian princely state of Kalat
context_section_description: Beylerbey or Beylerbeyi (Ottoman Turkish: بكلربكی‎; "Bey of Beys", meaning "the Commander of Commanders" or "the Lord of Lords"; originally Beglerbeg[i] in older Turkic) was a high rank in the western Islamic world in the late Middle Ages and early modern period, from the Seljuks of Rum and the Ilkhanids to Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Empire. Initially designating a commander-in-chief, it eventually came to be held by senior provincial governors. In Ottoman usage, where the rank survived the longest, it designated the governors-general of some of the largest and most important provinces, although in later centuries it became devalued into a mere honorific title. Its equivalents in Arabic were amir al-umara, and in Persian, mir-i miran.
  The title was also used by the Khans of the Indian princely state of Kalat (Now in Pakistan)
caption: The eyalets of the Ottoman Empire in 1609
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