This Article Beylerbey is composed of Creative Common Content. The Original Article can be location at WikiPedia.org. Check us out at WikiPlays.org Beylerbey from Beylerbeyi Ottoman Turkish for Bey of Beys meaning Commander of Commanders or Lord of Lords originally Beglerbegi 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 ranks generally pashas. It is in western terms a Governorgeneral with authority over the Governors often styled Wali of several vilayets generally if not yet made a Pasha General second only to the Grand Vizier. Its equivalents in Arabic were amir alumara and in Persian miri miran. 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 devaluaed by extending it to the governors of various much smaller Ottoman eyalets. The title was also used by the Khans of the Indian later Pakistani princely state of Kalat.

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