Alaiye

Alaiye (علائیه) is the medieval Seljuq name for Alanya (on the southern coast of Turkey). It refers to the city-state in a specific period and the beylik which developed around there, at times under the Karamanid dynasty. After the 1242 Battle of Köse Dağ, the Seljuqs lost control of the city, and it became semi-autonomous.

Beylik of Alaiye

Alanya Beyliği
1293–1471
Flag
Piri Reis map of Alanya from 1525, shortly after the beylik was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire.
CapitalAlanya
Common languagesTurkish
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentCity-state
Bey 
History 
 Collapse of the Sultanate of Rum
1293
 
1471
 Annexation by the Ottoman Empire
1471
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Sultanate of Rum
Ottoman Empire
Today part of Turkey

Occupations

Before the influence of the Karamanid dynasty, Henry II of Jerusalem made an unsuccessful attempt to invade the city in 1291. Karamanids influence then began in 1293, with the capture of the beylik by Majd ad-Din Mahmud (Turkish: Mecdüddin Mahmud). In 1427, the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf Addin Barsbay acquired the beylik from the Karamanid Sultan Damad II İbrahim Bey in exchange of 5,000 gold coins.[1] In 1366, an attempt to occupy the beylik by Peter I of Cyprus was unsuccessful.

Governance

The beylik existed as an independent principality in some form from 1293 until 1471. The second rule of Kayqubad III was centered there. The Ottoman general Gedik Ahmed Pasha's victory against Kasim Bey and the Karamanids also happened in Alaiye. During this period no major state existed in Anatolia, following the defeat of the Seljuq Sultanate of Rûm by the Mongol Empire at the Battle of Köse Dag.

Following minor Christian incursions in the region in 1371, Badr ad-Din Mahmud Bey, an emir of the Karamanids built a mosque and medrese in 1373–1374 in the city.[2]

Ruler list

  • Mecdüddin Mahmud (1293-?)
  • Yusuf (1330-1337)
  • Şemseddin Mehmed (1337-1352)
  • Hüsameddin Mahmud
  • Savcı Bey ( - 1423)
  • Karaman Bey
  • Lütfi ( - 1455)
  • Kılıç Arslan (1455 - 1471)

References

  1. "The History of Alanya". Ministry of Tourism. Archived from the original on 2007-09-01. Retrieved 2007-05-01.
  2. Dörner, F. K.; L. Robert; Rodney Young; Paul A. Underwood; Halet Çambel; Tahsin Özgüç; A. M. Mansel; A. Gabriel (1954). "Summary of Archaeological Work in Turkey in 1953". Anatolian Studies. Anatolian Studies, Vol. 4. 4: 14. doi:10.2307/3642371. JSTOR 3642371.

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