Begzade (Kurdish), Beyzade (Turkic), and Begzadici (Slavic) are titles given within the Ottoman Empire to provisional governors and military generals who are decedents of noble households and occupy important positions within the empire. The term Beyzade often appears in western accounts of the Ottoman Empire as superiors within the society, usually men who held a lot of authority. In Eastern Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, and some parts of Anatolia and Iraqi Kurdistan the title Beyzade was given to Circassian princes who lead parts of the Ottoman conquest in these regions.