emirate · Anatolia and the Levant

Ramadanids

1352 CE – 1608 CE · capital Adana

A Turkmen dynasty that ruled Adana and the Cilician plain for over 250 years, first under the Mamluks and then under the Ottomans.

Origins

After the Mamluks broke the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Turkmen of the Uc Ok group settled the Cilician plain. Around 1352 their leader Ramadan Bey was recognised by the Mamluks as emir of the region, with Adana as his seat.

Rule and society

The Ramadanids ruled as hereditary Mamluk vassals over Turkmen tribes and the cotton and grain lands of the Cilician plain, guarding the frontier with the Karamanids and the Ottomans. In 1516-1517 they went over to Selim I and were kept as hereditary governors of the Ottoman sanjak of Adana. Piri Mehmed Pasha, a 16th-century ruler, built the Great Mosque complex of Adana.

Decline and legacy

The family lost its hereditary governorship in 1608, when Adana became an ordinary Ottoman province. The Ramazanoglu mansion and mosque in Adana survive.

Lineage

RamadanidsOttoman Empire 1299 CE – 1922 CE

Connections (1)

Ramadanids was a vassal of Mamluk Sultanate1352 CE – 1517 CE

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ramadanids. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/ramadanids
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