:Begzada

Begzada (Kurdish), Beyzade (Turkish), and Begzadići (Slavic), Beizadea (Romanian), Begzadi (female) "Bəyzadə" (Azerbaijani) are titles given within the Ottoman Empire to provisional governors and military generals who are descendants of noble households and occupy important positions within the empire.{{cite book|author=Ali H. Neyzi|title=Beyzade-Paşazade: 1930-1990, Volume 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s71tAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 October 2013|year=1992|publisher=Yanar Yayınları}}{{cite book|author=Özdemir Kaptan|title=Beyoğlu: (Beyoğlu ve kısa geçmişi)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SoMAAAAIAAJ&q=Beyzade|accessdate=27 October 2013|year=1988|publisher=Aybay Yayınları}}{{cite book|author=Atilla Dorsay |title=Benim Beyoğlum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U_AvAAAAIAAJ&q=Beyzade |accessdate=27 October 2013|year=1991|publisher=ağdaş Yayıncılık ve Basın Sanayii A.Ş.}} The term "Beyzade" often appears in Western accounts of the Ottoman Empire as superiors within the society, usually men who held much authority.{{cite book|last=Sir Slade|first=Adolphus|title=Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, &c: And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831, Volume 2|year=1833|publisher=E. L. Carey & A. Hart|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGALAAAAYAAJ&q=Beyzade&pg=PA29}}{{cite book|last=Wells|first=Florian Stone|title=The Sword and the Shield of the Realm|year=2008|publisher=Florian Stone Wells|isbn=978-0979957703|page=305|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xZJkpPmzqMC&q=Beyzade}} In Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and some parts of Anatolia and Iraqi Kurdistan, the title of Beyzade was given to Circassian princes who led parts of the Ottoman conquest in these regions.{{cite book|last=Philliou|first=Christine M.|title=Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution|year=2010|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520947757|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gcRedRqbfmkC&q=Beyzade&pg=PA71}}{{cite book|last=Cole|first=Juan Ricardo|title=Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East|year=1999|publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press|isbn=9774245180|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r51Te5xnJGsC&q=circassians+in+the+Ottoman+conquest&pg=PA32}}{{cite book|last=Chatty|first=Dawn|authorlink=Dawn Chatty|title=Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521817929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cefhBwMRTDIC&q=circassians+in+the+Ottoman+conquest}}{{cite book|last=Pamuk|first=Sevek|title=A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=0521441978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Htk3Wn789EQC&q=circassians+in+the+Ottoman+conquest}}

Social status

The Begzada as a caste developed in Kurdistan among some of the chief tribes and householders such as those of the Jaffs, Khoshnaws, Feylis Berwaris and the Bayat Begzade family descendants .{{cite book|author=Maarten Martinus van Bruinessen, Anijeholt, Voyage en Russie, en Caucase, en Perse .page 220|title=Agha, shaikh and state: on the social and political organization of Kurdistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s71tAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 September 2012|year=1978|publisher=Rijksuniversiteit|page=80}}{{cite book|last=Yalçın-Heckmann|first=Lale|title=Tribe and kinship among the Kurds|year=1991|publisher=Peter Lang Publishing|isbn=3631427026|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2SKAAAAAMAAJ&q=bibliogroup:%2219+By+Europ%C3%A4ische+Hochschulschriften+/+19%22}} Begzade formed the dominant class of the tribe or household. They did not intermarry with socially inferior tribespeople; however, a member of the Begzade could be part of the caste both by kinship ties to the ruling lineage and as one of their retainers.{{cite book|last=Tapper|first=Richard|title=Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_toQBA7ovwC&pg=PA408|accessdate=27 September 2012|date=2012-04-23|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415610568|page=408}} Although regarded as Kurds, the Begzade come from an ethnically mixed background, as most of them have Circassian origins.{{cite book|last=Maglaughlin|first=Kelly|title=Kurdish Culture and Society: An Annotated Bibliography|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0313315434|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sl4PIeyWriUC&q=Tribe+and+kinship+among+the+Kurds}}{{cite book|last=Gingeras|first=Ryan|title=Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191609794|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DF4dNEjenIC&q=Circassians+in+Kurdistan}}