Dulkadirids

The Dulkadirid beylik was a Turkoman principality in southern Anatolia. In 1337 its founder Qaraja Bey took Elbistan and accepted the title of na’ib from the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad.

The beylik controlled routes between Mamluks and Ottomans, and its dynasty married into the Ottoman house. Its daughters included the mothers of Mehmed II and Selim I. In the fifteenth century the traveller Bertrandon de la Broquière recorded women soldiers in Dulkadir. After the Battle of Turnadağ in 1515, Selim I and his grand vizier Sinan Pasha annexed the beylik and made it an Ottoman sanjak.