Karamanids
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Was one of the Anatolian beyliks, centered in South-Central Anatolia around the present-day Karaman Province. From the middle 1300s until its conquest by the Ottomans in 1487, the Karamanid dynasty was one of the most powerful beyliks in Anatolia.
Establishment
January 1251: Karaman Bey established a Beylik in the mountainous parts of Cilicia in the middle of the 13th century.
Chronology
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Were a series of wars between the successor states of the Mongol Empire.
1.1.Toluid Civil War
Was a war of succession over the Mongol Empire fought between Kublai Khan and his younger brother, Ariq Böke, from 1260 to 1264.
1.1.1.Division of the Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire fragmented into four successor states at the beginning of the Toluid Civil War.
January 1261: Town of Larende (now Karaman, in honor of the dynasty) and Ermenek (c. 1260).
Expansion during the rule of Bayezid I in the Ottoman Sultanate.
January 1392: The Ottomans took the cities of Akşehir and Niğde, as well as their capital Konya from the Karaman.
January 1393: Bayezid I, also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He conquered Kastamonu, a city in northern Anatolia, in 1392.
January 1393: Sinop conquered by Ottoman Sultanate.
January 1398: In 1397, Bayezid defeated the emir of Karaman in Akçay, killing him and annexing his territory.
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.
3.1.Timurid invasion Anatolia
Was a Timurid campaign in Anatolia, which was occupied for several years.
January 1403: After the Battle of Ankara were the Ottoman army was defeated by Timur, the reign of the Karamanids was re-established.
January 1404: Fortunately for the Ottoman dynasty, in 1403 Tamerlane returned with his army to Samarkand, because he wanted to conquer China.
January 1291: The Karamanids conquered Anamur from Cilicia Armenians.
January 1327: The dynasty of the Eshrefids ended when Mubariz al-Din Mehmed was executed by Timurtash. […] the territory was divided between the hamidids and the karamanids.
January 1329: The last sultan of Rum, Mesud II, was defeated and his lands conquered by the Karamanids in 1328.
January 1338: In 1337, the territory shown on the map was taken over by the Beylik of Dulkadir. The Beylik of Dulkadir was an Anatolian beylik established by Turkoman clans Bayat, Afshar, and Begdili after the decline of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.
January 1341: According to the chronicles of the Byzantine Empire, the Aq Qoyunlu or Ak Koyunlu ("White Sheep Turkomans") Turkoman confederation is established in Anatolia as early as 1340.
January 1404: Mehmet Bey, the ruler of the Karamanids, a Turkic dynasty in Anatolia, assembled an army to march on Bursa. He captured the city and damaged it.
February 1404: The Karamanids leave Bursa.
January 1449: In the late 14th century Corycus fell again to the Turks.
Disestablishment
January 1488: The Karamanid state was terminated by the Ottomans in 1487.
Selected Sources
Ducas: Historia turco-bizantina 1341-1462, XXII [6]
