113
708–829/1308–1426
Western Anatolia
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⊘ 708/1308 |
Muḥammad Beg, Mubāriz al-Dīn Ghāzī |
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⊘ 734/1334 |
Umur I Beg b. Muḥammad, Bahā’ al-Dīn Ghāzī |
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749/1348 |
Khiḍr b. Muḥammad |
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⊘ c. 761–92/c. 1360–90 |
‘Īsā b. Muḥammad |
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792/1390 |
Ottoman annexation |
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805/1402 |
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⊘ 805/1403 |
Umur II b. ‘Īsā |
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⊘ 808–29/1405–26 |
Junayd b. Ibrāhīm Bahādur b. Muḥammad |
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829/1426 |
Definitive Ottoman annexation |
The family of Aydïn Oghlu Muḥammad Beg, who had been a commander in the army of the Germiyān Oghullarï (see below, no. 116), had their principality on the coasts and in the hinterland of western Anatolia, the classical Maeonia, with their centre at Aydïn or Tralleia, the later Güzel Hisar, a region through which ran the lower course of the Büyük Menderes river. Thus it lay between the amirates of Ṣarukhān to the north and Menteshe to the south. Umur I Beg captured Izmir or Smyrna and made the Aydïn Begs an important naval power against the Latin Christians in the Aegean, so that he became the hero of a destān or epic. The principality was annexed by Bāyazīd I but restored by Tīmūr. The last amīr, Junayd, supported the Ottoman counter-sultan Düzme Muṣṭafā (see below, no. 130), but was defeated by Murād II, and Aydïn was incorporated into the Ottoman empire.
Khalīl Ed’hem, 279–80; Zambaur, 151; Bosworth–Merçil–İpşirli, 287–9.
EI2 ‘Aydin-Oghlu’ (Irène Mélikoff); İA ‘Aydın’ (Besim Darkot and Mükrimin Halil Yınanç).
İ. H. Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu beylikleri, 104–20.
E. A. Zachariadou, Trade and Crusade: Venetian Crete and the Emirates of Menteshe and Aydin (1300–1415), Venice 1983.
