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c. 749–831/c. 1348–1428
The region of Canik (Jānīk), in the hinterland of the Black Sea coast
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c. 749/c. 1348 |
Tāj al-Dīn b. Doghan Shāh |
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789–800/1387–98 |
Maḥmūd b. Tāj al-Dīn, in Niksar, d. 826/1423 |
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796/1394 |
Alp Arslan b. Tāj al-Dīn, in part of the Niksar district |
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796/1396 |
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800/1398 |
Ottoman annexation |
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805–31/1402–28 |
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831/1428 |
Definitive Ottoman annexation |
The region of Canik lay to the south of Samsun, and it was at Niksar, on the southern slopes of the Pontic range, that the Türkmen beg Tāj al-Dīn, whose father Doghan Shāh had been influential under the Il Khānids in eastern Anatolia, established a small principality on his father’s death. He contracted a protective marriage alliance with the Byzantine kingdom of Trebizond on his eastern borders, but was unable to fend off the attacks of Qāḍī Burhān al-Dīn of Sivas (see above, no. 126), and his son submitted to the Ottomans. Tāj al-Dīn’s grandsons were restored by Tīmūr, but eventually handed over their principality to Sultan Murād II.
Bosworth-Merçil-İpşirli, 326–8.
İ. H. Uzunçarşih, Anadolu beylikleri, 153–4.
