bölükbaşı
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thumb|160px|Janissary boluk-bashi (1780). Boluk-bashi (, , "head of [infantry] company, company captain") was an Ottoman officer rank equivalent to captain. It was replaced in the 19th century by the rank of yüzbaşı.
==Etymology== The word is made up of two elements, bölük ("division, group of troops", from böl, "to separate") and baş ("head"). It entered into Balkan languages such as and .
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