Alemdar Sipahi (Flag Bearer Cavalryman)

Alemdar Sipahi

Alem was a symbol used in the Ottoman army to mean a flag or a banner. Those who carried the flag were also called alemdar. Alemdar was a duty in the janissary corps. Sultan II. When the grand vizier of the Mahmud period, Alemdar (or Bayraktar) Mustafa Pasha, entered the janissary corps, he served as a public servant and got his nickname from there. There was a standard-bearer in each middle to carry the flags of the middles that formed the Janissary corps, and a flag-bearer in each of the middles that made up the Kapıkulu corps. Sipahis also had their own flags and flag bearers.

• The collection created by enriching the relief work with engraving is a first. The works, which are prepared as bronze coating on synthetic polymer, will be produced in a limited number of 600 pieces of each model. The works, whose design registration has been obtained and will be presented with a certificate, refer to the glorious process of the Ottoman Empire, which reigned for 600 years.

Flag Bearer Cavalryman  

"Alem-Flag” was a term having the means of flag or oriflamme in the Ottoman Army. The ones carrying the flags were used to be called as "Alemdar" meaning "Flag bearer". Flag bearing was a specific duty In the Guild of Janissaries. Alemdar (or Flag Bearer) Mustafa Pasha being the Grand Vizier of Sultan II Mahmut was also a flag bearer when he firstly attended the Guild of Janissaries and he got his title from that duty. Each midst forming the Guild of Janissaries had a flag bearer to carry the flags; likewise the midst constituting the Household Troops had a flag

bearer to carry their flags. The cavalrymen had also their own fags and flag bearers.

Size: 70.5x47.5x4 cm.

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