emirate · Anatolia and the Levant
Saruhanids
Origins
Saruhan Bey, a Turkmen commander, took Magnesia (Manisa) from the Byzantines in 1313 and made it the capital of a beylik in the Hermus valley, north of the Aydinids.
Rule and society
The Saruhanids joined the Aydinids in raiding the Aegean islands and the Greek mainland, and at times sent troops to help Byzantine factions, including John VI Kantakouzenos. The fertile Gediz plain made the beylik prosperous, and Ishak Bey built the Great Mosque of Manisa in 1366-1367. The beylik also traded with Genoese Phocaea.
Decline and legacy
Bayezid I annexed Saruhan in 1390. Timur restored it after the battle of Ankara in 1402, but the Ottomans absorbed it again around 1410, and Manisa became the seat of Ottoman princes.
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- Saruhanids was a vassal of Timurid Empire1402 CE – 1405 CE
- Saruhanids was conquered by Ottoman Empire1410 CE
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