Karaman Emirate
| Karamanids Karamanid dynasty |
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 The Karamanid beylik and other eastern Mediterranean states in 1450
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Larende Ermenek Konya Mut Ereğli |
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| Languages | Old Anatolian Turkish | |||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | |||||||||
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| • | 1256? | Kerimeddin Karaman Bey | ||||||||
| • | 1483–1487 | Turgutoğlu Mahmud | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Medieval | |||||||||
| • | Established | 1250 | ||||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1487 | ||||||||
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Flag of Karaman according to the Catalan Atlas.
The Karamanids or Karamanid dynasty (Modern Turkish: Karamanoğulları, Karamanoğulları Beyliği), also known as the Principality of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman (Karaman Beyliği ), was one of the Anatolian beyliks, centered in south-central Anatolia around the present-day Karaman Province. From the 13th century until its fall in 1487, the Karamanid dynasty was one of the most powerful Turkish beyliks in Anatolia.
The Karamanids traced their ancestry from Hodja Sad al-Din and his son Nure Sufi Bey, who emigrated from Arran (roughly encompassing modern-day Azerbaijan) to Sivas because of the Mongol invasion in 1230.
The Karamanids were members of the Salur tribe of Oghuz Turks. According to Muhsin Yazicioglu and others, they were members of the Afshar tribe, which participated in the revolt led by Baba Ishak and afterwards moved to the western Taurus Mountains, near the town of Larende, where they came to serve the Seljuks. Nûre Sûfi worked there as a woodcutter. His son, Kerîmeddin Karaman Bey, gained a tenuous control over the mountainous parts of Cilicia in the middle of the 13th century. A persistent but spurious legend, however, claims that the Seljuq Sultan of Rum, Kayqubad I, instead established a Karamanid dynasty in these lands.
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