Aydınids

The Aydınids were a Turkoman maritime beylik on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, ruled from Birgi. Mehmed Bey’s son Umur used Smyrna as a base for raids and commanded a fleet said to number 350 ships in 1337.

Umur’s attacks on Christian shipping drew the Smyrniote crusade, proclaimed in 1343. He died in 1348 attacking the walls of Smyrna, which the crusaders had taken. The Ottomans absorbed the beylik in 1390; Timur briefly restored it in 1402, but after its last bey Junayd fell in 1425 it was permanently incorporated into the Ottoman realm.