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23-403: Meḥmed was the eldest son of Karim al-Dīn Ḳarāmān , the soubashi of the region around Ermenek , Mut , Silifke , Gülnar , and Anamur . Upon Ḳarāmān's death in 1263, Sultan of Rum Kilij Arslan IV arrested his children and brother, emir-i jandar Bunsuz. When Kilij Arslan died in 1266 and Muʿīn al-Dīn Parwāna assumed full power, the latter released Ḳarāmān's children, except for ʿAlī, who

46-564: A devotee of the Turkish language . During his brief term as a vizier, he issued a firman dated 13 May 1277: The university of Karaman city is named after him.(see Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University ) Karim al-Din Karaman Karim al-Dīn Ḳarāmān Beg was a Turkoman chieftain who ruled the Karamanids in the 13th century. Ḳarāmān Beg's emergence coincides with the defeat of

69-612: A mosque from Karaman can now be found in the Çinili Pavilion near the Archeology Museum in Istanbul . The Karamanslis were Cappadocian Turkomans who fought the Ottomans. Later they integrated into the empire. There was a Roman Catholic titular see for the city. The poet Yunus Emre ( c.  1238–1320 ) resided in Karaman during his later years and is believed to lie buried beside

92-529: Is a city in south central Turkey , located in Central Anatolia , north of the Taurus Mountains , about 100 km (62 mi) south of Konya . It is the seat of Karaman Province and Karaman District . Its population is 175,390 (2022). The town lies at an average elevation of 1,039 m (3,409 ft). The Karaman Museum is one of the major sights. The town owes its name to Karaman Bey , who

115-499: The Byzantine Empire . He began punishing rebellious tribes. Seeing this restoration as a threat to his beylik and anticipating a blow from the sultan, Karaman Bey took initiative by a surprise attack to Konya. But he was defeated in the battle of Gevele (west of Konya). Both of his brothers were killed and he escaped to his territory. It is believed that he died shortly after the battle. He was succeeded by Mehmet I . According to

138-600: The Sultanate of Rum by the Mongolian Empire in 1256 and the tension between Kaykaus I and his rival brother Kilij Arslan IV , which allowed local lords living along the boundaries of the state to exercise some autonomy. He was the son of Nûre Sûfî Bey , a Turkish leader from Arran , who established himself in the Taurus Mountains near Larandia and who became a Seljuk vassal. Some time before 1256, Karaman Bey officially succeeded his father (who had already left him

161-603: The Turkish language to be used instead of Persian and Arabic in government offices. But his service term in Konya lasted only about a month. Hearing news of the approaching Mongol army, both Mehmet and Jimri fled from Konya. But the Mongols chased him, and during a clash in Mut Mehmet and his two sons were executed in August 1277. He was succeeded by his brother Güneri . Mehmet is known as

184-519: The Armenian chroniclers, in one of the battles against king Hethum at the fort Meniaum (probably Mennan near Ermenek) his brother Buñsuz and his brother-in-law were killed (information which is in contradiction to other sources that say that Buñluz who was amir djandar in Konya was jailed after the death of Karaman), and he himself was wounded and died shortly after, about 1262. Also, some of his children and members of his family were taken prisoners and held in

207-1108: The Gevele fortress near Konya . The central authority was to some extent re-established, at least in Ermenek, where, until 1276, an official Seljukid governor held office without any recorded difficulties. Karaman is supposedly buried in Nalkasun near Ermenek, but according to the inscription on the tomb, it belongs to his son Mehmed. He was buried in Balkusan (now a village in Ermenek district of Karaman Province ) His children were freed by Pervane Muin al-Din Sulaymab upon Sultan Kilidj Arslan IV's death in 1265, except his second son, Ali Beg who remained as hostage in Kayseri. Mehmed would regain power in 1276 in Ermenek . His sons were Shams al-Dīn Meḥmed , ʿAlī, Tānū, Maḥmūd, Zakariyyā, and Güneri. Karaman Karaman

230-629: The Great , after he had defeated Ariarathes I , king of Cappadocia . It later became a seat of Isaurian pirates. At some point it was possessed by Antipater of Derbe . It belonged to the Roman and later Byzantine Empires until it was captured by the Seljuks in the early 12th century. Karaman was occupied by Frederick Barbarossa in 1190 and by the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia between 1211 and 1216. In 1256,

253-598: The Mongols in 1276, Badr al-Dīn attempted to take revenge on Meḥmed but was defeated by him in Göksu Valley . Next year he allied himself with Baybars of Mamluks . In May he captured Konya , the Seljuk capital. But instead of declaring himself as the sultan he supported his puppet Jimri as sultan, and in turn Jimri appointed him as vizier of the Seljuks on 12 May 1277. As vizier Mehmet issued his famous firman (decree) ordering

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276-642: The Yunus Emre Mosque. A small adjacent park is adorned with quotations from his verse, many of them graffiti -splattered. In 1222, the Sufi preacher Bahaeddin Veled arrived in town with his family, and the Karamanoğlu emir built a madrasah to accommodate them. Veled's son was the famous Rumi , who married his wife, Gevher Hatun, while his family was living in Karaman. It was here, too, that Rumi's mother died in 1224. She

299-813: The conquests as indicated in the Encyclopedia of Islam (vol. IV, page 643) is 1225, during the reign of Ala al-Din Kaykubadh I (1220-1237), which seems excessively early. Karaman Bey's conquests were mainly at the expense of the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia (and perhaps at the expense of Rukn al-Din Kilidj Arslan IV, 1248-1265). He fought against the Armenians on the Isaurian-Cilician borders to such extent that King Hethum I (1226-1269) had to place himself voluntarily under

322-468: The effective power several years prior in order to pursue a life in seclusion). In about 1260 Karaman makes his first appearance in the Isaurian-Cilician Taurus regions. Although the points of detail can probably never be determined, it can be accepted that Karaman started life as a woodcutter and timber merchant who brought supplies from the western Taurus to the little town of Laranda. In

345-617: The northern slopes of the Toros Mountains close to Konya , the Seljuk capital. The Seljuk Sultan, afraid of the Karamans increasing power, gave him some towns as ikta ( fief) . The city of Karaman (ancient Larende) bears his name. Karaman fought against the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and expanded his territory. Good relations between the Seljuqs and the Karamanids did not last. In 1261, on

368-573: The position of amir djandar in Konya . The fall of Izz al-Din is said to have been one of the causes and possibly was the occasion of or pretext for his uprising. Izz al-Din was regarded, relatively speaking, as an ally of the Turcomans against the Mongols, and the efforts of Rukn al-Din to win the support of the Karamanids were in vain. Karaman Bey expanded his territories by capturing castles in Ermenek , Mut , Ereğli , Gülnar , Mer and Silifke . The year of

391-668: The pretext of supporting Kaykaus II who had fled to Constantinople as a result of the intrigues of the chancellor Pervâne, Karaman Bey and his two brothers, Zeynül-Hac and Bunsuz, marched toward Konya, the capital of Seljuqs, with 20,000 men. A combined Seljuq and Mongol army, led by the chancellor Mu'in al-Din Suleyman, the Pervane, defeated the Karamanid army and captured Karaman Bey's two brothers. In 1261 Kılıç Aslan IV of Seljuks more or less regained strength after his elder brother took refuge in

414-449: The sovereignty of the great Khan , in order to protect his kingdom from Mamluks and Seljuks (1244). King Hethum I had to intervene several times, and succeeded in repulsing Karaman. He founded his beylik which was already semiautonomous during his father's reign. The Seljuks , who were their nominal suzerains, were defeated by the Mongols and the Karamans had no problem to settle in

437-633: The struggle between Izz al-Din Kaykaus (1246-1260) and his rival Kilidj Rukn al-Din Arslan IV Karaman supported the first. But Kilidj Rukn al-Din Arslan with the help of Parvaneh ( Parvana ) Sulayman Muin al-Din who was the one who had the real power, and the Mongols , managed to eliminate most of the hostile emirs or begs, but could not capture or kill Karaman and thus, tried to appease him by granting him Larandia and Ermenek and by giving his brother Buñsuz

460-451: The town was taken by Karaman Bey and was renamed Karaman in his honour. From 1275, Karaman was the capital of the Karamanid beylik . In 1468 the Karamanids were conquered by the Ottomans and in 1483 the capital of the province was moved to Konya . Karaman has retained ruins of a Karamanid castle and some walls, two mosques and a Koran school ( madrasah ) from that age. A mihrab from

483-636: Was buried, along with other family members, in the Aktekke Mosque (also known as the Mader-i Mevlana Cami), which Alaeddin Ali Bey had built to replace the original madrasah in 1370. When Thomas Jefferson fought Libya's Barbary pirates , he replaced one member of the al-Qaramanli dynasty with another as Pasha. The bearers of the Greek name Karamanlis as well as other surnames beginning with "Karaman" are

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506-608: Was kept in Kayseri . Meḥmed and his brothers joined Hatīroghlu Sharaf al-Dīn's revolt against the Mongols. Sharaf al-Dīn granted Meḥmed the lands his father Ḳarāmān formerly ruled over and dismissed Badr al-Dīn Ibrāhīm from that position. Meḥmed further expanded his territory towards the Mediterranean coast and eliminated the Mongol force of 200 men in Ulukışla . When Sharaf al-Dīn was killed by

529-506: Was one of the rulers of the Karamanid dynasty. The former name Laranda which in turn comes from the Luwian language Larawanda , literally means "sandy, a sandy place". In ancient times, Karaman was known as Lānda in Hittite and Laranda ( Greek : Λάρανδα ). In the 6th century BC it came under Achaemenid rule until 322 BC, when it was destroyed by Perdiccas , a former general of Alexander

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