The House of Mengüjek (

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: ''Mengüçoğulları'', ''Mengücek Beyliği'' or ''Mengüçlü Beyliği''; the reigning dynasty is known as Mengujekids or Menkujakids) was a Turkish

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(principality) of the first period, founded after the

Battle of Manzikert The Battle of Manzikert or Malazgirt was fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Empire on 26 August 1071 near Manzikert, Iberia (theme), Iberia (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the Byzantine army ...

. The Mengujekids ruled the regions of

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, Kemah,

Şebinkarahisar Şebinkarahisar is a town in Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of northeastern Turkey. It is the administrative seat of Şebinkarahisar District.

and

Divriği Divriği (; ) is a town of eleven thousand people in Sivas Province, Turkey, and is the district capital of Divriği District.Eastern Anatolia The Eastern Anatolia region () is a geographical region of Turkey. The most populous province in the region is Van Province. Other populous provinces are Malatya, Erzurum and Elazığ. It is bordered by the Black Sea Region and Georgia in th ...

in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Mengüjek Gazi

Little is known about the founder Mengüjek Ghazi. He was probably one of the commanders of the

Great Seljuk The Seljuk Empire, or the Great Seljuk Empire, was a high medieval, culturally Turco-Persian, Sunni Muslim empire, established and ruled by the Qïnïq branch of Oghuz Turks. The empire spanned a total area of from Anatolia and the Levant in t ...

, and his principality seems to have been founded in the years following the battle. The beylik was split into the Erzincan and Divriği branches after the death of Emir İshak in 1142. By 1178, Behramşah, of the Erzincan branch, had proved their allegiance to the Rum Seljuks through marriage. While the Divriği branch under Şahinşah, recognized the Sultanate of Rum as their overlords by declaring it on their copper coins. The Erzincan branch was subjugated by the

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in 1228, and the Divriği branch was ended by the

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in 1277.

Divriği Great Mosque

The Mengüjek dynasty is remembered primarily for its monuments in Divriği. The

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Numismatics

Sayf al-Din Şahinşah's coinage, of which there are three known varieties in copper, captures the essence of Seljuk dominance as it was felt in Divrigi in late twelfth-century Anatolia. The earliest type, which dates to 1171-2, is inscribed with Şahinşah's name on the reverse and

Kilij Arslan II Kilij Arslan II () or ʿIzz ad-Dīn Kilij Arslān ibn Masʿūd () ( Modern Turkish ''Kılıç Arslan'', meaning "Sword Lion") was a Seljuk Sultan of Rûm from 1156 until his death in 1192. Reign In 1159, Kilij Arslan attacked Byzantine emperor Ma ...

's name and title on the obverse. This coin was most likely indicates a numismatic symbol of servitude to

, during the time Şahinşah seized control in Divrigi. Although it is not dated, a second type of Şahinşah coin lacks the name of the Seljuk sultan. This type likely refers to the time just after Kilij Arslan II's death in 1192, when the sultan's sons engaged in a civil war for the Seljuk throne.

Rulers

* Mengüjek Gazi (1072-1118) * İshak (1118-1142) Branch of Erzincan * Davudşah (1142-1162) * Süleymanşah (1151-1162) * Fahrettin Behramşah (1162-1225) * Alaeddin Davudşah II (1225-1228) Branch of Divriği * Süleyman (1142-1162) * Şahinşah (1162-1198) * Süleyman II (1198-1227) *

Ahmetşah Ahmetşah (r.1227-1251), also Ahmadshāh ibn Sulaymān or Ahmed Shah, was a ruler of the Divriği branch of the Seljuk House of Mengüjek, son of Süleyman II (1198-1227). His suzerain was the Seljuk Rum ruler Alauddin Keykubad I. He was notabl ...

(1227-1251) * Melik Salih (1251-1277)

Genealogy of House of Menguchek

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