emirate · Anatolia and the Levant

Alaiye Beylik

1293 CE – 1471 CE (approx.) · capital Alanya

A small Turkish principality at Alanya on the Mediterranean coast, ruled by a branch of the Karamanids under the great Seljuk citadel.

Origins

Alanya was built up by the Seljuk sultan Kayqubad I after 1221 as a winter capital and naval base. After Seljuk authority collapsed in the late 13th century, local Turkish lords, later linked to the Karamanids, took over the city and its surrounding coast.

Rule and society

The rulers lived in the Seljuk citadel and used its shipyard and Red Tower. Ibn Battuta visited in the 1330s and met its ruler Yusuf Bey. The town traded timber and other goods with Cyprus, Egypt and Venice. In 1427 its ruler sold Alanya to the Mamluk sultan Barsbay, though Mamluk control did not last, and the Karamanid line returned.

Decline and legacy

The Ottoman commander Gedik Ahmed Pasha took Alanya in 1471 from its last ruler, Kilij Arslan, who received a domain elsewhere.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Alaiye Beylik. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/alaiye-beylik
MLA
“Alaiye Beylik.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/alaiye-beylik. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Alaiye Beylik.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/alaiye-beylik.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Alaiye Beylik’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/alaiye-beylik (Accessed: ).

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