{{Short description|Military rank in the Ottoman Empire}} {{Military ranks of Ottoman}}'''''Kolağası''''' (also written as ''Kol Ağası'', ''Kol Aghasi'') was a military rank of the Ottoman Army. It corresponds to a Senior Captain or an Adjutant Major.<ref>Erik Jan Zürcher, ''The Unionist Factor: The Role of the Committee of Union and Progress in the Turkish National Movement, 1905-1926'', BRILL, 1984, {{ISBN|978-90-04-07262-6}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=NcoUAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22The+normal+career+pattern+was%3A%22&pg=PA64 p. 64.]</ref> ''Kol Ağası'' is a compound word composed of ''Kol'' (column in Turkish) and ''Ağa'' (chief in Turkish).
The rank was junior to the rank ''Binbaşı'' (Major), and senior to the rank ''Yüzbaşı'' (Captain) in the Ottoman Army.
Despite being a single rank, ''Kolağası'' was divided in two: '''''Sağ Kolağası''''' (Kolağası of the Right Flank) and '''''Sol Kolağası''''' (Kolağası of the Left Flank). ''Sağ Kolağası'' was senior to ''Sol Kolağası''. After the rank of ''Yüzbaşı'' (Captain), an officer had to first become ''Sol Kolağası'', before becoming ''Sağ Kolağası''.
== See also == *Comparative military ranks of World War I *Asakir-i Mansure-i Muhammediye
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