Bey

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What Wikipedia says

Bey, also spelled as Baig, Bayg, Beigh, Beig, Bek, Baeg, Begh, Beg, or Beğ, is a Turkic title for a chieftain, and a royal, aristocratic title traditionally applied to people with special lineages to the leaders or rulers of variously sized areas in the numerous Turkic kingdoms, emirates, sultanates and empires in Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Europe, and the Middle East, such as the Ottomans, Timurids or the various khanates and emirates in Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe.

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