page_title: Agha (title)
hierarchical_section_title: Agha (title)
caption_attribution_description: Omer Agha, officer of Ottoman Pasha, Seyh Mahmud of Suleymaniye, Iraq, 1820. Illustration of " An Officer of the Pasha of Sulimania" from CLAUDIUS JAMES RICH"s NARRATIVE OF RESIDENCE IN SULEYMANIYE 1836. Mr. Rich the celebrated British Resident [ diplomat], in Baghdad in 1808, travelled throughout Middle East in 1820 for health reasons!, and was the guest of the Pasha of Suleymaniye, Seyh Mahmud, the son of Seyh Abdur Rahman, who built the town of Suleymaniye. The Pashas of Suleymaniye were of the Baban Family, originally from Pizhder on the Persian border, and descendant of Suleyman Baba, who fought the Persians on the side of the Ottomans in the 17th. century. They were made Pashas of two tails in the 18th. century. "
context_page_description: Agha, also Aga, is an honorific title for a civilian or military officer, or often part of such title, and was placed after the name of certain civilian or military functionaries in the Ottoman Empire. At the same time some court functionaries were entitled to the agha title.
context_section_description: Agha, also Aga (Ottoman Turkish: آغا‎, Persian: آقا‎ āghā "chief, master, lord"), is an honorific title for a civilian or military officer, or often part of such title, and was placed after the name of certain civilian or military functionaries in the Ottoman Empire. At the same time some court functionaries were entitled to the agha title.
caption: Omar Agha, officer for the Kurdish Pasha, Sheikh Mahmoud of Sulaymaniyah of Baban principality, Kurdistan, 1820[1]
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