Amuca tribe

The "Amuca tribe" in Turkish: "Amuca Kabilesi"

Amucalar, is one of the nomadic Oghuz Turks tribes, of the Ottoman Empire, which moved from Anatolia to the Balkans. At the end of 14th Century , this clan established a settled life in Ottoman Thrace. Today they live in Kırklareli Province. The first founded village of this tribe was Keşirlik, located in the Mahya Dağı.

Meaning of the word

"Amuca - Uncle", is the old adage word, that means the father's brother. "Kabilesi - tribe", have passed the word was used and the records of the Ottoman Empire as Amuca Tribe. Today, more often, "Amica Tribe" is said to be.

Origin

Amuca Tribe, belongs to the longitudinal Kayı tribe. This Clan "Amuca kabilesi" to be described, they are derived from relatives of the Ottoman Dynasty. Amucalar, descendants of Gündüz Gazi and Saru Batu Savcı Bey, the Older son's of Ertuğrul. If you are asked this tribes: "You are the descendants of whom?" This Folk is mentioned: We "Amucalar", descendants of Ertuğrul, trough his son's Gündüz Gazi and Saru Batu Savcı Bey, who was the oldest Brother's to Osman I. They speak a dialect of old Ottoman Turkish language.

Family tree

Kara Han
- Oghuz Khan
  - Gün Han
    - Kayı Han
      - Sarkuk Alp
        Gök Alp
        Kaya Alp
        Suleyman Shah/(Gündüz Alp)
        Dündar Alp
        Dündar Bey
        
        Gündoğdu
        
        Sungur Tekin
        
        Ertoğrul
        Gündüz Gazi, Founder of the Amuca tribe
        Aktimur/(Akbaş Bey)
        Gündüz Noyan
        Kaydu
        Çinkim
        Samdup
        Talib
        Cebe
        
        Temelün Hanım
        
        Yulun Hanım
        
        Yesugan Hanım
        
        Aydoğdu Alp
        
        Saru Batu Sacvi Bey
        Bayhoca
        
        Süleyman Bey
        Hatice Hanım
        Hamza
        Mehmet
        
        Mustafa
        Osman
        
        Ilaldı Hanım
        
        Fatma Hanım

Religion and Culture

Mostly Amucalar are follower Bektashi Order from the Tarikat of Sheikh Bedreddin, but also few Members are Sunni muslim of Maturidi. Mostly male Members of the Amuca tribe are "high and loose" Circumcised with 13 year's. The yağlı güreş/Oil wrestling, is very a common Sport in this tribe.

Prominent People of the Amuca tribe

Gül Baba, (died 1541), also known as Cafer, was an Ottoman Bektashi dervish poet and companion of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent who took part in a number of campaigns in Europe from the reign of Mehmed II onwards
Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha
President: Hoca Salih Mehmed Efendi of the Provisional Government of Western Thrace
Ziya Songülen
Ersin Faikzâde (international volunteer, a singer and a writer)

Emirzâde Şaban Bey Efendi (1908–1980), born in Harmanli in Bulgaria, was the son of Mahmut Bey and Habibe Hanım .

He was the nephew of Ziya Songülen and a Member of the Amuca tribe also a descendant of Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha and Saliha Sultana.

In the Turkish-Bulgarian War, settled his Mother in 1912 to Babaeski/Turkey. He had an older brother Emirzâde Hasan Bey. His father died when he was four years old, and together with his older brother grew up with their uncle. His mother was a maid of Sehzade Abdülhalim and went along with him and his family into exile in France in 1924. He was married with Nemzade Hatice Hanım, and a follower of Sunni Islam.

His wife Nemzade Hatice Hanım (1911–2000), born in Hasköy/Haskovo in Bulgaria, was the daughter of Mehmed Ali Paşa and Fehime Hanım Karakoç.

Mehmed Ali was a descendant of of the Karakoçlu/Black Mutton Clan.

Fehime was the Granddaughter of Abdi Pasha.

In the Turkish-Bulgarian War, settled her family in 1913 to Babaeski/Turkey. She was married with Emirzâde Şaban Bey, and was a follower of Sunni Islam.

Princely to the throne of the House of Amuca from the former Adrianople Vilayet trough Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha

Emirzâde Yüksel Sarmaşık, (b.1963, Turkey - d.1985, Turkey),
Emirzâde Yücel Salih Sarmaşık, (b.1970, Turkey)
Emirzâde Zafer Sarmaşık, (b.1977, Turkey)
Emirzâde Timur Can Sarmaşık, (b.1978, Germany)
Emirzâde Kerem Sarmaşık, (b.2006, Turkey)

NOTE

The princes of the house of Amuca are no claimants to the throne of the Ottoman dynasty, and they make no claims.

Haplogroup of Oğuzhan

Because so many Turkish-people today claim to be a descendant of Oghuz Khan, male members of the Amucalar, descendants of Gündüz Gazi, the older brother of "Osman I, tested their Y-DNA. Genetic history of the Turkish people, shows that the common ancestor "Ertuğrul", belonged to haplogroup: R1a=6.9% - Typical of Central Asian, Caucasus, Eastern Europeans and Indo-Aryan people.