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The Ṣarukhān Oghullarï

c. 713–813/c. 1313–1410

Western Anatolia

⊘ c. 713/c. 1313

Ṣarukhān Beg b. Alpagï, d. after 749/1348

⊘ c. 749/c. 1348

Ilyās b. Ṣarukhān, Fakhr al-Dīn

⊘ by 758/by 1357

Isḥāq Chelebi b. Ilyās, Muẓaffar al-Dīn, d. c. 790/c. 1388

⊘ c. 790–2/c. 1388–90

Khiḍr Shāh b. Isḥāq, first reign

792/1390

Ottoman annexation

⊘ 805/1402

Orkhan b. Isḥāq

⊘ after 807–13/

after 1404–10

Khiḍr Shāh, second reign

813/1410

Definitive Ottoman annexation

The Ṣarukhān family of begs ruled over the agriculturally rich coastal province of classical Lydia, Ṣarukhān Beg having conquered Magnesia or Manisa in c. 713/ c. 1313. From there his family became, together with the neighbouring begs of Aydïn (see below, no. 113), a naval power in the Aegean, involved with the Genoese and Byzantines, and also, after the middle years of the century, acquiring a common frontier with the Ottomans after the latter’s annexation of the principality of Qarasï (see above, no. 111). The Ottoman Bāyazīd I annexed the Ṣarukhān principality, but it was restored by Tīmūr immediately after his victory at Ankara in 804/1402 over the sultan, only to be definitively re-annexed by the Ottomans eight years later, after which Manisa became the residence of one of the Ottoman princes.

Khalīl Ed’hem, 276–8; Zambaur, 150; Bosworth–Merçil–İpşirli, 323–5.

EI2 ‘Ṣarūkhān’ (Elizabeth A. Zachariadou); İA ‘Saruhan-Oğulları’ (M. Çağatay Uluçay).

İ. H. Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu beylikleri, 84–91.

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