Karasi Bey

Karasi Bey, also called Karasi Khan, was the eponymous founder of the Karasid beylik in northwestern Anatolia. He and his father Kalam seized the hinterland around Balıkesir under Seljuk rule and later claimed independence.

After the failed Byzantine campaigns of 1302–1308 he expanded to the borders of the Sarukhanids. He built up a fleet on the Marmara and Aegean coasts and died around 1328, leaving power to his son Demir Khan.