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The Beys of Alanya

692–876/1293–1471

The southern Anatolian coastland

692/1293

Maḥmūd, Majd al-Dīn or Badr al-Dīn, governor for the Qaramānids

730–7/1330–7

Yūsuf, governor for the Qaramānids

?

Sawchï b. Muḥammad Shams al-Dīn

⊘ ?

Qaramān b. Sawchï

830/1427

Mamlūk occupation of Alanya

?

Luṭfī b. Sawchï, ruling in 848/1444

c. 865–76/c. 1461–71

Qïlïch Arslan b. Luṭfī

876/1471

Ottoman annexation

The port of Alanya received its earlier name of ‘Alā’iyya from the Seljuq sultan ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Kay Qubādh I, who conquered it in 617/1220. After 692/1293, it was controlled by the Qaramānids (see below, no. 124), whose representatives there bore at times the title of amīr al-sawāḥil ‘commander of the coastlands’, but on one occasion in the later fourteenth century it was controlled by the Lusignan kings of Cyprus. In the early fifteenth century it was for a while in the hands of the Mamlūks of Egypt, then governed by a descendant of the Rūm Seljuqs until in 876/1471 it was conquered by the Ottomans.

Bosworth–Merçil–İpşirli, 285–6.

EI2 ‘Alanya’ (F. Taeschner).

İ. H. Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu beylikleri, 92–5.

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