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Ottoman Turkish title and naval rank
Reis
(
Ottoman Turkish
:
????
ra??s
; sometimes spelled
rais
) was a military rank in the
Ottoman Empire
, akin to that of a naval
captain
or (in the Levant) a
commodore
, that was commonly added to the
officer's
name as an epithet during the
Ottoman Empire
.
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[2]
Examples include:
The rank
Reis Pasha
referred to an Admiral,
[
citation needed
]
while the
Kapudan Pasha
(akin to Grand Admiral; literally "Captain Pasha") title referred to the commander-in-chief of the
Ottoman Navy
fleet.
The title is also a low ranking aristocratic title in Lebanon and Syria's coastlines denoting a landed or formerly landed family that swore fealty to
Fakhr al-Din II
during their alliance with the
Medici
in the 17th century. It is roughly equivalent to a
Baron
, however titles of the Ottoman and subordinate nobility seldom translates to Western peerages. The only extant "Ru'assa" in Lebanon are the "House of El Azzi" in
Tabarja
whom escaped persecution in the 19th century and abandoned their ancestral homes in the
Chouf
.
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