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The Ḥamīd Oghullarï and the Tekke Oghullarï

c. 700–826/c. 1301–1423

West-central Anatolia and the south-western coastland

1. The Ḥamīd Oghullarï line in Eğridir

2. The Tekke Oghullarï line in Antalya

Ilyās b. Ḥamīd was, like his father, a Turkish frontier commander of the Seljuqs, who carved out for himself a principality based on Eğridir in the classical interior region of Pisidia and also in the southern coastal regions of Lydia and Pamphylia, in the latter regions based on Antalya. The Ḥamīd Oghullarï thus came to control an important north–south trade route across western Anatolia. Two sons of Ilyās established themselves in the northern Ḥamīd principality and the southern Tekke one respectively. The first was definitively annexed by Bāyazīd I in c. 793/ c. 1391, but Tekke, likewise absorbed by the Ottomans, was restored by Tīmūr, only to be finally ended in 826/1423 when the Ottomans defeated and killed the last ruler, ‘Uthmān Chelebi.

Khalīl Ed’hem, 286, 289–91; Zambaur, 153; Bosworth–Merçil–İpşirli, 304–6.

EI¹ ‘Teke-eli’, ‘Teke-oghlu’ (F. Babinger), EI² ‘Ḥamīd or Ḥamīd Oghullari’ (X. de Planhol); İA ‘Ḥamîd-Oğulları’ (İ. H. Uzunçarşılı), ‘Teke-Oğulları’ (M. C. Şihâbettin Tekindağ).

İ. H. Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu beylikleri, 62–9.