Alaiye () is the medieval Seljuq name for

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(on the southern coast of

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). 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 Battle of Köse Dağ was fought between the Sultanate of Rum ruled by the Seljuq dynasty and the Mongol Empire on June 26, 1243, at the defile of Köse Dağ, a location between Erzincan and Gümüşhane in modern northeastern Turkey. The ...

, the Seljuqs lost control of the city, and it became semi-autonomous.

Occupations

Before the influence of the Karamanid dynasty,

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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 ( tr, Mecdüddin Mahmud). In 1427, the

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Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf Addin Barsbay acquired the beylik from the Karamanid Sultan Damad II İbrahim Bey in exchange of 5,000 gold coins. In 1366, an attempt to occupy the beylik by

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was unsuccessful.

Governance

The beylik existed as an independent principality in some form from 1293 until 1471. The second rule of

Kayqubad III Kayqubad III ( 1ca, كَیقُباد سوم or ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Farāmurz ( fa, علاء الدین کیقباد بن فرامرز) was briefly sultan of the Sultanate of Rum between the years of 1298 and 1302. He was a nephew of th ...

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

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, following the defeat of the

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by the

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at the Battle of Köse Dag. Following minor Christian incursions in the region in 1371, Badr ad-Din Mahmud Bey, an

emir Emir (; ar, أمير ' ), sometimes transliterated amir, amier, or ameer, is a word of Arabic origin that can refer to a male monarch, aristocrat, holder of high-ranking military or political office, or other person possessing actual or cer ...

of the Karamanids built a

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and

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in 1373–1374 in the city.

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)

Occupations

Governance

Ruler list

References

Further reading