Çelebi or Chelebi may refer to:
Derviş Mehmed Zillî, known as Evliya Çelebi, was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith. He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the Seyahatnâme. The name Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God".
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi was an Ottoman scientist, engineer and aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight.
WAN or Wan may also refer to:
Celebi may refer to:
Zaman, an Arabic and Hebrew word for time, era, or life may refer to:
Gazi, Gaji or ghazi may refer to:
Ardahan is a city in northeastern Turkey, near the Georgian border. It is the seat of Ardahan Province and Ardahan District. Its population is 22,927 (2021).
Kâtip Çelebi, or Ḥājjī Khalīfa ; was a Turkish polymath and author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. He compiled a vast universal bibliographic encyclopaedia of books and sciences, the Kaşf az-Zunūn, and wrote many treatises and essays. “A deliberate and impartial historian… of extensive learning”, Franz Babinger hailed him "the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans."
Turkish Kurdistan or Northern Kurdistan refers to the southeastern part of Turkey where Kurds form the predominant ethnic group. The Kurdish Institute of Paris estimates that there are 20 million Kurds living in Turkey, the majority of them in the southeast.
Jalali may refer to:
Burhan is an Arabic male name, an epithet of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is especially popular in Turkey, as it respects Turkish vowel harmony and the end syllable "-han" can be interpreted as the Turkish variant of "Khan".
Naci or NACI may refer to:
Ulaş is a town and district of Sivas Province in Turkey.
The Eyalet of Diyarbekir was an eyalet of the Ottoman Empire. Its reported area in the 19th century was 20,332 square miles (52,660 km2), slightly larger than the original Abbasid province in Upper Mesopotamia. In 1846 it was succeeded by the Kurdistan Eyalet.
Çelebi is a Turkish title of respect, approximately corresponding to "gentleman", "well-mannered" or "courteous". Çelebi also means “man of God”, as a i-suffixed derivative from çalab, which means "God" in old Turkish. German linguist and Turkologist Marcel Erdal, citing Baron Tiesenhausen, traces çalab back to Arabic djellaba "importer, trader, merchant" > "high social positions"; jallāb is derived from root j-l-b "to have brought, to import", ultimately from West Semitic root g-l-b "to catch, to fetch".
Reşwan, also known as Reşiyan, is a Kurdish tribe, native to the western frontier of Kurdistan, mostly populating Adıyaman, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş and Malatya provinces in Turkey and also present in Konya and Ankara provinces, Raqqa in Syria, and Qazvin Province in Iran. Members of the tribe mostly adhere to the Hanafi school of Islam but some are Alevi.
The Mahmudi, also known as Pinyanişi, is a Kurdish tribe in the Lake Van region.
The Mahmudi beylik, founded in 1406 in the south of Van, by the Mahmudi, a Kurdish tribe from Azerbaijan or Botan region, was a Kurdish principality which ruled the Hakkari and Donboli districts for a certain time.
Şêxbizin is a Kurdish tribe present near Koy Sanjaq in Kurdistan Region, Iraq with smaller communities dispersed throughout Turkey. While the tribe speaks Sorani in Kurdistan Region, the ones in Turkey have kept their tribal sub-dialect of Laki called Şêxbizinî or Kirmancekîman. Nonetheless, many in Turkey only know Turkish due to the assimilatory policies of Turkey.
Anton Çelebi was a wealthy Armenian silk merchant in Ottoman Empire during the second quarter of the 17th-century with offices in Smyrna and Constantinople. He was the Governor of Bursa and the tax collector of Izmir sometime around mid-1600s, who at some point had to flee to Livorno because of being threatened to be killed by the Sultan.