Boluk-bashi () was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain (see Military of the Ottoman Empire). The holder was in command of a bölük, a sub-division of a regiment. It was higher than oda-bashi (lieutenant).
Royal Corps of Colonial Troops
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.
Serbian hajduks
It was adopted by the Serbian hajduks and into the Serbian Revolutionary Army as buljubaša () or buljukbaša ().
People such as Janko Gagić, Arsenije Loma, Konda Bimbaša, Zeka Buljubaša, Veljko Petrović and Petar Dobrnjac had the rank of buljubaša in the prelude and during the Serbian Revolution.
Notable people
Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Turkish philosopher
Zerrin Bölükbaşı, Turkish sculptor
Iliaș Colceag ( 1710–1743), Moldavian
Abdul Bölükbaşı ( 1821), Tripolitsa
Yahya bey Dukagjini (1498–1582), Albanian
See also
Bölükbaşı (surname) Buljubašić