List of Aghas of the Janissaries

This is a list of the Aghas of the Janissaries, the commanders of the Janissary corps from the early 16th century to the early 19th century.

Name  | Tenure
as Agha  | Fate  | Refs

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Yakub Agha | 1515 | unknown | [1]
Ferhad Agha | 1515–1517 | Promoted to beylerbey (governor-general) of Rumelia and vizier | [1]
Ayas Mehmed Agha | 1517–1519(?) | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served as grand vizier (1536–1539) | [1]
Kemal or Kemaleddin Agha | 1519 | Died in office | [1]
Behrem Agha | 1519–1520 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [1]
Bali Agha | 1521–1523 | Executed | [1]
Mustafa Agha | 1523(?)–1525 | Executed | [1]
Şücaadin Agha | 1525–1526 | Died in office | [1]
Ismail Agha | 1526(?) | Promoted to beylerbey | [1]
Mehmed Agha | 1526(?)–1531 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [1]
Güzelce Rüstem Agha | 1531–1533/4 | Promoted to beylerbey of Budin | [1]
Silahdar Cafer Agha | 1533/4–1534 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [2]
Mehmed Agha | 1534 | Promoted to beylerbey of Aleppo | [2]
Kara Ahmed Agha | 1534–1541 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served as grand vizier (1553–1555) | [2]
Temerrüd Ali Agha | 1541 | Promoted to beylerbey of Erzurum | [2]
Ferhad Agha | 1541–1546/7 | unknown | [2]
Semiz Ali Agha | 1546/7–1549 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served as grand vizier (1561–1565) | [2]
Sinan Agha | 1549–1553 | unknown | [2]
Iskender Agha | 1553(?)–1554(?) | Possibly promoted to beylerbey of Egypt | [2]
Pertev Mehmed Agha | 1554 | unknown | [2]
Damad Ferhad Agha | 1554–1558 | Promoted to beylerbey of Kastamonu | [2]
Shamsi Ahmed Agha | 1558–1561 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served as grand vizier (1579–1580) | [2]
Hasan Agha | 1561–1563 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [2]
Müezzinzade Ali Agha | 1563–1566 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha | [2]
Cafer Agha | 1566–1569 | Promoted to governor of Kütahya | [3]
Siyavuş Agha | 1569–1570 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served thrice as grand vizier (1582–1584, 1586–1589, 1592–1593) | [3]
Mustafa Agha | 1570–1575 | Died in office | [3]
Cafer Agha | 1566–1569 | Promoted to governor of Kütahya | [3]
Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Agha | 1575–1579 | Promoted to governor of Erzurum, eventually served as grand vizier (1596) | [3]
Cerrah Mehmed Agha | 1579 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served as grand vizier (1598–1599) | [3]
Damad Ibrahim Agha | 1579–1582 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served thrice as grand vizier (1596, 1596–1597, 1599–1601) | [3]
Serdar Ferhad Pasha | 1582 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Rumelia, eventually served twice as grand vizier (1591–1592, 1595) | [3]
Payzen Frenk Yusuf Agha | 1582(?)–1584 | Promoted to beylerbey of Budin | [3]
Mehmed Agha | 1584 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [3]
Ayas Pashazade Mustafa Agha | 1585 | Promoted to beylerbey of Marash | [4]
Maraşlı Kara Mehmed Agha | 1585 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Rumelia | [4]
Hürrem Agha | 1585{?)–1587 | unknown | [4]
Halil Agha | 1587–1588 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [4]
Halil Agha | 1588–1589 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [4]
Hızır Agha | 1589 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [4]
Apostol Mahmud Agha | 1589–1590 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [4]
Saatçi Hasan Agha | 1590–1591 | Promoted to beylerbey and kaymakam | [4]
Satırçı Mehmed Agha | 1591–1592 | Promoted to beylerbey of Karaman, eventually served as grand vizier (1604–1606) | [4]
Bosnalı Halil Agha | 1592 | unknown | [4]
Mahmud Agha | 1592–1594 | unknown | [4]
Yemişçi Hasan Agha | 1594–1595 | 1st tenure. Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Shirvan | [4]
Harami Ahmed Agha | 1595 | Promoted to beylerbey of Bosnia | [5]
Güzelce Mahmud Agha | 1595 | Promoted to belyerbey of Kars and kaymakam | [5]
Yemişçi Hasan Agha | 1595–1596 | 2nd tenure. Promoted to commander of Yerevan, eventually served as grand vizier (1601–1603) | [5]
Veli Agha | 1596 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [5]
Sarıkçı Mustafa Agha | 1596 | Promoted to beylerbey of Van | [5]
Tırnakçı Hasan Agha | 1596–1601 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Baghdad | [5]
Ali Agha | 1601–1603 | Dismissed | [5]
Deli Ferhad Agha | 1603 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [5]
Kasim Agha | 1603 | Promoted to vizier and kaymakam | [5]
Türk Koca Ahmed Agha | 1603–1604 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha | [5]
Nakkaş Hasan Agha | 1604 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Rumelia | [6]
Silahdar Hüseyin Agha | 1604–1606 | Promoted to beylerbey of Aleppo | [6]
Maryol Hüseyin Agha | 1606–1607 | Promoted to beylerbey of Anatolia | [6]
Kayserili Halil Agha | 1607–1609 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha, eventually served as grand vizier (1616–1619) | [6]
Imrahor Ibrahim Agha | 1611(?)–1612 | Promoted to beylerbey of Yemen | [6]
Miralem Ismail Agha | 1612–1613(?) | Dismissed | [6]
Çukadar Ahmed Agha | 1613 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [6]
Mustafa Agha | 1613 | Promoted to beylerbey of Egypt | [6]
Ahmed Agha | 1613–1615 |  | [6]
Mustafa Agha | 1615–1616 | Died in office | [6]
Sari Hüseyin Agha | 1616 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [7]
Ohrili Hüseyin Agha | 1616 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [7]
Nişancı Ahmed Agha | 1616 | Promoted to beylerbey of Egypt | [7]
Ali Agha | 1616 | Promoted to beylerbey of Bosnia | [7]
Hocazade Damadi Mustafa Agha | 1616–1618 | Promoted to beylerbey of Diyarbekir | [7]
Mirahor Ispartali Mustafa Agha | 1618–1619 | Promoted to beylerbey of Egypt | [7]
Bibershami Silahdar Yusuf Agha | 1619–1620 | Promoted to beylerbey of Aleppo | [7]
Niğdeli Softa Mustafa Agha | 1620–1621 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha | [7]
Deveci Ali Agha | 1621–1622 | unknown | [7]
Kara Ali Agha | 1622 | Murdered by Janissaries | [7]
Deli Derviş Agha | 1622 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [8]
Berber Kara Mustafa Agha | 1622 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Egypt | [8]
Çeşteli Ali Agha | 1622–1623 | Promoted to beylerbey of Egypt | [8]
Bayram Çelebi Agha | 1623 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Egypt, eventually served as grand vizier (1637–1638) | [8]
Hüsrev Agha | 1623–1626 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Diyarbekir, eventually served as grand vizier (1628–1631) | [8]
Ali Agha | 1626–1627 | Died in office | [8]
Demirkazık Halil Agha | 1627–1628 | Promoted to governor of Sivas | [8]
Mostarlı Mustafa Agha | 1628–1630 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [8]
Hacı Eyvad Süleyman Agha | 1630–1631 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Erzurum | [8]
Hasan Halife Agha | 1631–1632 | Murdered | [8]
Köse Mehmed Agha | 1632–1634 | Executed | [8]
Mehmed Agha | 1634–1635 | Promoted to governor of Karaman | [9]
Kemankeş Kara Mustafa Agha | 1635 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha, eventually served as grand vizier (1638–1644) | [9]
Şahin Agha | 1635–1638 | Promoted to defterdar | [9]
Küçük Hasan Agha | 1638 | Promoted to governor of Baghdad | [9]
Rikabdar Bıyıklı Mustafa Agha | 1638–1640 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [9]
Silahdar Siyavuş Agha | 1640 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha | [9]
Tekeli/Antalyali Mustafa Agha | 1640(?)–1642 | Promoted to governor of Erzurum | [9]
Bektaş Agha | 1642–1643 | Promoted to governor of Bursa | [9]
Hezargradi Voynuk Ahmed Agha | 1643–1644 | Promoted to beylerbey of Bosnia | [9]
Mirahor Salih Agha | 1644 | Promoted to vizier and chief defterdar, eventually served as grand vizier (1645–1647) | [10]
Rikabdar Şaban Agha/Pasha | 1644–1645 | Promoted to beylerbey of Marash | [10]
Musa Agha/Pasha | 1645 | Promoted to chief defterdar and Kapudan Pasha, eventually served as grand vizier (1647) | [10]
Pirinçcizade Ahmed Agha/Pasha | 1645–1646 | Promoted to governor of Biga | [10]
Debbağ Mehmed Agha | 1646–1647 | Promoted to beylerbey of Aleppo | [10]
Hamamcı Mehmed Agha | 1647 | Promoted to vizier | [10]
Hamzapaşazade Mehmed Agha/Pasha | 1647 | Promoted to vizier | [10]
Seyyid Emir Mehmed Efendi | 1647 | Promoted to beylerbey of Egypt | [10]
Küçük Çavuş Ahmed Agha | 1647–1648 | Exiled to Kütahya | [10]
Bostancıbaşı Ceyazirli Musa Agha | 1648 | Died in office | [10]
Emir Seleci Şerif Mustafa Agha | 1648 | Promoted to governor of Bolu and chief defterdar | [10]
Karagöz Mehmed Agha | 1648–1649 | Promoted to beylerbey of Egypt and defterdar | [10]
Kara Dev Murad Agha | 1649 | Promoted to Kapudan Pasha | [11]
Şahin Agha | 1649–1651 | Executed | [11]
Karahasan Aghazade Hüseyin Agha | 1651 | Promoted to governor of Kastamonu | [11]
Malatyali Rikabdar Süyman Agha | 1651–1653 | Promoted to governor of Malatya, eventually served as grand vizier (1655–1656) | [11]
Gürcü Mustafa Agha/Pasha | 1653 | Promoted to governor of Kanije | [11]
Kenan Agha/Pasha | 1653–1655 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Kanije | [11]
Mirahor Mehmed Agha | 1655–1656 | Dismissed | [11]
Ases Damadı Mehmed Agha | 1656 | Executed | [11]
Çukadar Boşnak Mahmud Agha | 1656 | Executed | [11]
Çetrefilzade Gürcü Hüseyin Agha/Pasha | 1656 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Diyarbakir | [11]
Sührap Mehmed Agha/Pasha | 1656–1657 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Sivas | [11]
Hoca Ali Agha | 1657–1658 | Executed | [12]
Kundakçizade Kanbur Mustafa Agha | 1658–1662 | Promoted to vizier and beylerbey of Damascus | [12]
Salih Agha | 1662–1664 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [12]
Mustafa Agha | 1664 | Died in office while on campaign | [12]
Muharrem Agha | 1664 | Promoted to beylerbey of Anatolia | [12]
Çavuşbaşı ŞiŞman Ibrahim Agha | 1664–1665 | Promoted to governor of Belgrade | [12]
Arnavuduzun Ibrahim Agha/Pasha | 1665–1669 | Promoted to kaymakam | [12]
Abdi Agha/Pasha | 1669 | Promoted to vizier | [12]
Abdurrahman Agha/Pasha | 1669(?)–1674 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Baghdad | [12]
Kara Hasanzade Mustafa Agha | 1674–1678 | Promoted to kaymakam | [12]
Çelebi Ibrahim Agha/Pasha | 1678–1679 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Erzurum | [12]
Tekdurfağlı Beki Mustafa Agha/Pasha | 1679–1683 | 1st tenure. Promoted to vizier |
Hadji Zülfikar Agha/Pasha | 1683–1686 | Promoted to dizdar (fortress commandant) of Chios | [13]
Çolak Hasan Agha | 1686 | Retired | [13]
Beki Mustafa Pasha | 1686–1687 | 2nd tenure. Promoted to dizdar of Boğaz Hisar fortress, eventually served as grand vizier (1688–1689) | [14]
Cadi Yusuf Agha | 1687 | Promoted to governor of Cidde | [13]
Cerrah Mustafa Agha | 1687–1688 | Promoted to dizdar of Sedd el Bahr fortress | [13]
Harputlu Hadji Ali Agha | 1688 | Executed | [13]
Darbakçı Ali agha | 1688 | Executed | [13]
Müezzinzade Hasan Agha/Pasha | 1688 | Promoted to vizier | [13]
Koca Mahmud Agha/Pasha | 1688–1689 | Promoted to vizier | [13]
Ebubekir Agha/Pasha | 1689–1690 | Promoted to governor of Niğbolu | [13]
Arabacı Kadi Ali Agha | 1690–1691 | Promoted to vizier and kaymakam, eventually served as grand vizier (1691–1692) | [15]
Çikoğlu Mehmed Agha | 1691 | Died in office | [15]
Eğinli Mehmed Agha | 1691 | Executed | [15]
Daltaban Mustafa Agha | 1691–1692 | Promoted to dizdar of Özi fortress, eventually served as grand vizier (1702–1703) | [15]
Çelebi Ismail Agha/Pasha | 1692–1693 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [15]
Gürcü Elhac Abdullah Agha | 1693–1694 | Promoted to dizdar of Belgrade fortress | [15]
Murad Agha/Pasha | 1694–1695 | Promoted to governor of Izmit | [15]
Çelebi Arec Yusuf Agha/Pasha | 1695 | Promoted to governor of Özi | [15]
Deli Baltazade Mahmud Agha | 1695–1697 | Died in office | [15]
Çelebi Ibrahim Agha/Pasha | 1697–1698 | Promoted to dizdar of Boğaz Hisar fortress | [16]
Kürd Ibrahim Agha | 1698–1701 | Promoted to governor of Mosul | [16]
Doğramacızade Mehmed Agha | 1701–1703 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Chania | [16]
Dellak Ali Agha | 1703 | Promoted to dizdar of Belgrade fortress | [16]
Arnavud Osman Agha | 1703 | Promoted to beylerbey of Damascus | [16]
Elhac Çalik Ahmed Agha | 1703 | Executed | [16]
Çelebi Mehmed Agha | 1703–1704 | 1st tenure | [16]
Boşnak Hasan Agha | 1704 | Promoted to governor of Hüdavendigâr (Bursa) | [16]
Tortumlu Ibrahim Agha | 1704–1705 | Retired | [16]
Çelebi Mehmed Agha | 1705–1706 | 2nd tenure. Promoted to kaymakam and vizier | [17]
Arnavud Osman Agha/Pasha | 1706–1707 | Died | [16]
Balli Mehmed Agha | 1707–1708 | Promoted to governor of Niğbolu | [18]
Koca Kara Mustafa Agha | 1708–1710 | 1st tenure. Banished to Gelibolu | [18]
Gürcü Yusuf Agha/Pasha | 1710–1711 | Promoted to grand vizier (1711–1712) | [18]
Çelebi Mehmed Agha/Pasha | 1711–1712 | 3rd tenure. Promoted to kaymakam | [18]
Koca Kara Mustafa Agha | 1712–1713 | 2nd tenure. Banished to Malkara | [18]
Arnavud Haci Deli Ebubekir Agha | 1713 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Kyustendil | [18]
Kürd Hasan Agha | 1713–1715 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Chania | [18]
Darbune Ebubekir Agha | 1715–1716 | Promoted to beylerbey of Erzurum | [18]
Bayraktar Zileli Hüseyin Agha/Pasha | 1716–1717 | Banished to Bihke | [18]
Ermeni Mehmed Agha | 1717–1718 | 1st tenure. Banished to Tekfurdağı | [19]
Muhsinzade Abdullah Agha/Pasha | 1718–1719 | Promoted to defterdar and beylerbey of the Morea | [18]
Findikzade Ahmed Agha | 1719 | Banished to Tekfurdağı | [20]
Ermeni Mehmed Agha | 1719–1724 | Died | [20]
Kethüda Hasan Agha | 1724–1730 | Banished to Rhodes | [20]
Sarrac Kel Mehmed Agha | 1730 | Dismissed | [20]
Muhsinzade Abdullah Agha/Pasha | 1730–1731 | Promoted to governor of Adana, eventually served as grand vizier (1737) | [20]
Şahin Mehmed Agha/Pasha | 1731 | Promoted to kaymakam and Kapudan Pasha | [20]
Köle Gürcü Ismail Agha/Pasha | 1731–1732 | Promoted to beylerbey of Rumelia | [20]
Çelebi Kethüdabeyzade Abdülbaki Agha | 1732–1733 | Banished to Gelibolu | [20]
Altinci Mustafa Agha | 1733–1734 | Dismissed | [20]
Abdullah Agha/Pasha | 1734–1738 | Died | [20]
Deli Seyyid Hasan Agha/Pasha | 1738–1743 | Promoted to grand vizier (1743–1746) | [21]
Erzurumi Yazıcızade Elhac Ibrahim Agha | 1743–1745 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Erzurum | [21]
Malatyalı Ibrahim Agha/Pasha | 1745–1747 | Promoted to governor of Aydın | [21]
Kelleci Mustafa Agha | 1747–1748 | 1st tenure. Banished to Gelibolu | [21]
Hüseyin Agha | 1748 | Banished to Bursa | [21]
Hacı Hasan Agha | 1748–1750 | Promoted to governor of Khotyn | [21]
Kelleci Mustafa Agha | 1750 | 2nd tenure. Banished to Gelibolu | [21]
Deli Emir Seyyid Ahmed Agha | 1750 | Promoted to vizier and governor of Sidon | [21]
Darbunezade Seyyid Numan Agha | 1750–1751 | Banished to Erzurum | [21]
Macar Hacı Hasan Agha | 1751–1752 | Banished to Lemnos, eventually Kapudan Pasha | [21]
Sari Mustafa Agha | 1752–1755 | Promoted to kaymakam | [21]
Ahıskalı Mehmed Agha | 1755 | Banished to Manisa | [21]
Dibacızade Ibrahim Agha/Pasha | 1755–1757 | Promoted to kaymakam of the grand vizier | [21]
Kalafat Mehmed Pasha | 1770 |  |
Yeğen Mehmed Pasha | 1772–1774 |  |
İbrahim Hilmi Pasha | 1804–1806 |  |

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Yıldız 2018, p. 400.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Yıldız 2018, p. 401.
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 402.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Yıldız 2018, p. 403.
5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 404.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 405.
7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 406.
8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Yıldız 2018, p. 407.
9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Yıldız 2018, p. 408.
10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Yıldız 2018, p. 409.
11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Yıldız 2018, p. 410.
12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Yıldız 2018, p. 411.
13. ^ a b c d e f g h i Yıldız 2018, p. 412.
14. ^ Yıldız 2018, pp. 411, 412.
15. ^ a b c d e f g h i Yıldız 2018, p. 413.
16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 414.
17. ^ Yıldız 2018, pp. 414, 415.
18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 415.
19. ^ Yıldız 2018, pp. 415, 416.
20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yıldız 2018, p. 416.
21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Yıldız 2018, p. 417.

## Sources[edit]

* Yıldız, Aysel (2018). "Commanders of the Janissary Army: The Janissary Ağas, Their Career and Promotion Patterns". In Georgios Theotokis; Aysel Yıldız (eds.). A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea: Aspects of War, Diplomacy, and Military Elites. Leiden and Boston: Brill. pp. 397–462. ISBN 978-90-04-31509-9.