Boluk-bashi

Ottoman Empire

The bölükbaşı was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain. It was used in the Janissary corps during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66).^[2] In the 17th century the holder was in command of a bölük, a sub-division of a regiment.^[3] During the Ottoman Old Regime (1703–89) the rank translated into "captain of a squadron", commanding a bölük of the sipahi and silahdar cavalry.^[4]

It was higher than oda-bashi (lieutenant).^{[citation needed]} The Ottoman reforms of Tanzimat (1839–76) saw the bölük being a company of hundred men (yüz meaning "hundred") under the commanding rank of yüzbaşı (also translated as "captain").^[5]

Serbs

The rank of buljubaša (Serbian Cyrillic: буљубаша) or buljukbaša (буљукбаша) was used by the Serbian hajduks for the commanders of a brigand četa ("company"). Among notable hajduks holding the rank that were murdered by the Dahije (renegade Janissaries) in the Slaughter of the Knezes^[6] were Janko Gagić, Gavrilo Buđevac and Mata from Lipovac.^[7] It then entered the ranks of the Revolutionary Serbian Army in the First Serbian Uprising (1804–13) as the equivalent of kapetan ("captain").^[8] Among notable holders were Arsenije Loma, Zeka Buljubaša, Hajduk-Veljko and Petar Dobrnjac.

Royal Corps of Colonial Troops

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In the Royal Corps of Colonial Troops of the Italian Royal Army, it was known as bulucbasci and was the equivalent to the rank of sergeant.

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Ottoman Empire

Serbs

Royal Corps of Colonial Troops

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