A variant term or historical name for a governor or commander in some Islamic historical contexts; sometimes spelled atabeg or atabegh.
From Turkish/Persian atabegh (literally 'father commander'), a military title used in medieval Islamic empires. The term traveled through different languages with spelling variations.
Medieval Middle Eastern politics had titles even more confusing than English royalty—'atazir' and its variants show how the same rank meant different things in different empires, and spelling was negotiable.
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