Üsküplü Ata (died after 1533) was an
Ottoman poet of the 16th century. The precise dates of his birth and death are unknown. His ancestors had migrated from
Iran
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to
Rumelia
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, whereafter they settled in Üsküp (
Skopje
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, present-day
North Macedonia
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).
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16th-century poets from the Ottoman Empire
Poets from the Ottoman Empire
People from the Ottoman Empire of Iranian descent
Writers from Skopje
Male poets from the Ottoman Empire
16th-century deaths
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