Evrenos
Evrenos | |
|---|---|
| Nickname | Gazi Baba |
| Born | unknown |
| Died | 1417 Yenice-i Vardar, Ottoman Empire (now Giannitsa, Greece) |
| Buried | Mausoleum of Ghazi Evrenos, Giannitsa |
| Allegiance | Ottoman Empire |
| Conflicts | Battle of Kosovo (1389) Battle of Nicopolis (1396) Battle of Maritsa Conquest of Keşan, İpsala, Komotini, Feres, Xanthi, Maroneia, Serres, Monastir, and, in 1397, Corinth |
| Children | Ali Bey Evrenosoğlu |
Evrenos or Evrenuz (died 1417, Yenice-i Vardar) was an Ottoman military commander and frontier lord active during the expansion of Ottoman power into the Balkans in the second half of the 14th century.
He served as a general under Süleyman Pasha, Murad I, Bayezid I, Süleyman Çelebi and Mehmed I, and played a central role in the Ottoman conquest and consolidation of large parts of Macedonia, Thrace, and central Greece.