Tursun Beg was an Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 bureaucrat and historian who wrote a chronicle dedicated to Bayezid II

Bayezid II

Bayezid II or Sultân Bayezid-î Velî was the oldest son and successor of Mehmed II, ruling as Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512...

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Life and career

Tursun Beg's life is only known from references in his chronicle. He came from a prominent timariot

Timariot

A timariot was another name given to the Timarli Sipahi cavalry that served the Ottoman sultan and in return was granted a fief called a timar. The timariots had to assemble with the army when at war, and had to take care of the land entrusted to him in times of peace...

 family and held a timar

Timar

Timar is a land granted by the Ottoman sultans between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a tax revenue annual value of less than 20 000 akçes. The revenues produced from land acted as compensation for military service. A Timar holder was known as a Timariot...

 himself. He worked in the imperial divan

Divan

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 and accompanied Mehmed II

Mehmed II

Mehmed II , was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from...

 during the siege of Constantinople in 1453.

Works

Tursun Beg's only known work is the Tarih-i Ebülfeth (تاريخ ابو الفتح in Ottoman; "The History of the Conqueror").

See also

• List of Muslim historians