Celali rebellions
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The Celali revolt. Şükri-i Bidlisi, Selīmnāme-i Şükrī, probably Maraş-Istanbul, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, Ms. H. 1597-98, fol. 264a. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Celali rebels | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Selim I Suleiman the Magnificent Mehmed III Ahmed I Kuyucu Murad Pasha Ibşir Mustafa Pasha Tiryaki Hasan Pasha |
Bozoklu Şeyh Celâl Baba Zünnûn İsyanı Kalender Çelebi İsyanı Katırcıoğlu Mehmet Pasa Karayazıcı Deli Hasan Parmaksız Ali Janbulad Kalenderoğlu Tavil Ahmed Abaza Mehmed Pasha Varvar Ali Pasa | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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20,000 Sekbans, 30,000 ex-Sipahis rebels under Karayazici 50,000 cavalry (1602) 37,000 (1648) | |||||||
The Celali rebellions (Turkish: Celalî ayaklanmaları) were a series of rebellions in Anatolia of irregular troops led by bandit chiefs and provincial officials known as celalî, celâli, or jelālī, against the Ottoman Empire in the late 16th and early to mid-17th centuries.