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Orhan Bey of Menteshe

14th century · 14th century

Orhan Bey was ruler of the Turkish beylik of Menteshe in south-western Anatolia in the first half of the 14th century, governing from Milas. The traveller Ibn Battuta visited his court in the 1330s and praised him. His reign belongs to the period when Menteshe's coastal fleets raided the Aegean islands and the nearby Byzantine and Latin territories.

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