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Name: Alaiye

Type: Polity

Start: 1294 AD

End: 1493 AD

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After the 1242 Battle of Köse Dağ, the Seljuqs lost control of the city, and it became an independent beylik.

Establishment


  • January 1294: After the Battle of Köse Dağ, the Seljuqs lost control of the city of Alaiye, and it became semi-autonomous.
  • Chronology


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    1. Timurid invasions


    Military campaigns of Timur (or Tamerlane), a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.

    1.1.Timurid invasion Anatolia

    Was a Timurid campaign in Anatolia, which was occupied for several years.

  • January 1404: Fortunately for the Ottoman dynasty, in 1403 Tamerlane returned with his army to Samarkand, because he wanted to conquer China.

  • 1.1.1.Battle of Ankara

    Was a battle between the forces of the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I and the Emir of the Timurid Empire, Timur. The battle was a major victory for Timur, and it led to the Ottoman Interregnum.

  • July 1402: Timurid decisive victory against the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara (1402).

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1494: In 1493, the territory of Alaiye was annexed by the Ottoman Empire. Alaiye was a city in modern-day Turkey.
  • Selected Sources


  • Ducas: Historia turco-bizantina 1341-1462, XXII [6]
  • Tucker, S.C. (2011) Battles that changed History - An Encyclopedia of World Conflict, ABC-CLIO, p.139
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