Hamid Beg

Hamid Beg was the eponymous ancestor of the Hamidid dynasty of southwestern Anatolia. His Turkmen tribe, originally settled in northern Syria, migrated into Anatolia, where he served the Sultanate of Rum and trained the children and army of Sultan Kayqubad I. In 1240 Sultan Kaykhusraw II granted him frontier lands around Isparta and Burdur.

He is said to have declared independence after the deposition of the Rum sultan Mesud II, ruling Isparta, Burdur and Eğirdir from his capital Uluborlu, though he may already have been dead by then; his death is placed in the late thirteenth century.