Saruhanoğulları

The Saruhanids were a Turkmen beylik of western Anatolia around Manisa. Its founder Saruhan Bey, an emir of uncertain Oghuz or Kipchak origin who served the Seljuk sultans, was sent against Byzantine Manisa. He weathered the Alan mercenaries of the emperor's son Michael and the Catalan Company before taking the city in 1313 and making it his capital.

Saruhan built a fleet, raided the Aegean with the Aydınids and joined Umur Bey's expeditions to Thrace. His son Süleyman died there in 1345, and Saruhan followed the next year. His successors İlyas Bey and İshak Bey maintained the principality.

After the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 the Saruhanids sided with the Karamanids against the Ottomans, and Bayezid I overran the beylik in 1390. Timur restored it after the Battle of Ankara in 1402, but Mehmed I extinguished the line in 1412 and made Saruhan an Ottoman province.