The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty ( Modern Turkish: ''Aydınoğulları'', ''Aydınoğulları Beyliği'', ota, آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی), also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (), was one of the Anatolian beyliks and famous for its seaborne raiding.

Name

It is named after its founder Aydın Mehmed Bey.

Capital

Its capital was at first in Birgi, and later in Ayasoluk (present day Selçuk), was one of the frontier principalities established in the 14th century by Oghuz Turks after the decline of

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History

The Aydinids also held parts of the port of Smyrna (modern

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) all through their rule and all of the port city with intervals. Especially during the reign of Umur Bey, the sons of Aydın were a significant naval power of the time. The naval power of Aydin played a crucial role in the

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, where Umur allied with

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, but also provoked a Latin response in the form of the Smyrniote crusades, that captured Smyrna from the beylik. The Beylik was incorporated into the

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for the first time in 1390, and after the passage of Tamerlane in Anatolia in 1402 and the ensuing period of troubles that lasted until 1425, its territories became again part of the Ottoman realm, this time definitively.

Architecture

The Beys of Aydin left important architectural works, principally in Birgi and Ayasoluk ( Selçuk), their capital cities.

Legacy

The city of

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(ancient Tralles) was named after the dynasty.

List of rulers

#Muharizalsîn Gazi Mehmed Bey (1308–1334)C.E. Bosworth, ''The New Islamic Dynasties'', (Columbia University Press, 1996), 221. # Umur Bey (1334–1348) #Khidr b. Mehmed (1348–1360) # Isa b. Mehmed (1360–1390) * Ottoman rule (1390–1402) #İsaoğlu Musa Bey (1402–1403) #Musaoğlu II. Umur Bey (1403–1405) # İzmiroğlu Cüneyd Bey (1405–1426)

References

Bibliography

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