Hamid

The Hamidids were a Turkic beylik that arose in southwestern Anatolia as the Sultanate of Rum dissolved, holding the lake district around Eğirdir, Isparta and Uluborlu.

The dynasty looked back to Hamid and his son Ilyas, Seljuk frontier lords, and the founder was Dündar Bey, who made the family independent early in the fourteenth century. In 1321 his brother Yunus Bey founded the Beylik of Teke on the Mediterranean coast, with its capital at Antalya.

As Ottoman power grew, the Hamidids sold Akşehir and Beyşehir to Murad I, and Bayezid I extinguished the beylik in 1391, turning its heartland into the Ottoman Sanjak of Hamid. Teke was taken in the same year but restored by Timur after his victory at Ankara in 1402, until the Ottomans re-annexed it in 1423.