Tavas

Tavas was a Turkmen beylik on the Tavas plain south of the Menderes, around the fortress of Tabae. Its lords had ruled from Horasanlı and Hırka before moving to Tavas; İlyas Bey ruled in 1337.

When Denizli passed to the Germiyanids, Tavas was attached to the Menteşeids in 1365. The region was absorbed into the Ottoman Empire under Murad II in 1424; earthquakes in 1702–1703 devastated the town near Kale, prompting its inhabitants to move uphill.