Alaiye

Alaiye was a Turkmen beylik centred on a port on Anatolia's southern coast. Its ruling line was founded by the Karamanid prince Bedreddin Mahmud in 1293; Yusuf Bey, who reigned from about 1330 to 1337, governed the city with effective independence.

In 1366 Peter I of Cyprus attacked Alaiye from the sea but failed to take it. The Karamanid Ibrahim Bey II sold it to the Mamluk sultan Barsbay for five thousand gold coins in 1427. In 1471 the Ottoman general Gedik Ahmed Pasha conquered the city from its last bey, Kılıç Arslan.