Karaman Bey

Karim al-Din Karaman Bey (died c. 1262), son of Turkoman leader Nure Sofi, succeeded his father before 1256 as a Seljuk vassal in the Taurus. He built a semi-independent beylik in wars with Armenian Cilicia, taking several towns; Laranda was renamed Karaman after him.

In 1261, claiming to restore the exiled Sultan Kaykaus II, he marched on Konya but was routed by a Seljuk-Mongol army at Gevele and died soon after. His son Mehmet I succeeded him and revived the Karamanid state in 1276.