Haciemirids

The Hacıemirid beylik was a Turkoman lordship centred on Mesudiye in the Black Sea region of Canik. Its first bey, Bayram, declared independence during the Mongol civil war of 1335–1336 and fought Trebizond.

Bayram joined a failed siege of Trebizond in 1348. His son Hacıemir married a daughter of its ruler Basil in 1358 and took Ordu in 1380; Hacıemir’s son Süleyman captured Giresun in 1397. The beylik later accepted Ottoman suzerainty, briefly regained independence after Timur’s victory at Ankara in 1402, and was annexed by the Ottomans in 1427.