Karamanids
The Karamanids were a Turkish dynasty in central Anatolia, ruling from Konya. Their lordship grew around Larende, later called Karaman; in 1337 Alâeddin Halil Bey ruled as Ilkhanid authority collapsed, with support at times from the Egyptian Mamluks.
His successor married Nefise Hatun, daughter of the Ottoman sultan Murad I, but rivalry followed. After 1402 Karamanid princes raided Bursa, and during the Crusade of Varna they sacked Ankara and Kütahya. The Ottomans eventually prevailed, annexing their lands as the Karaman Eyalet in 1487; the dynasty left mosques and medreses in Konya and Karaman.
Characters
- Halil of Karaman
- Ahmet of Karaman
- Ibrahim I of Karaman
- Karaman Bey of Karaman
- Karaman Bey
- Badr al-Din Mahmud Bey
- Musa of Karaman
- Şemseddin of Karaman
- Süleyman of Karaman