Mentesche
Mentesche ( Turkish Menteşe Beyliği ) was a Turkish Beylik that originated in the west of the Seljuks of Konya at the time of its collapse after the defeat by the Mongols ( Mongol storm 1243 ) in the second half of the 14th century . The capital was Milas .
The founder and namesake of the Beyliks Mentesche Bey was previously in the service of the Germiyan and was a member of the Oghuz tribe Afshar . The Beys of Mentesche extended their power from the coast to the hinterland of Caria and around 1285 into the area of Miletus . Their rulership corresponded roughly to today's Muğla Province . They maintained close trade ties with the Republic of Venice and Crete ; a Venetian consul resided in Miletus. The cities of Beçin, Milas, Balat, Finike , Elmalı , Kaş , Mağrı (today Fethiye ), Muğla , Çameli , Acıpayam , Tavas , Bozdoğan , Çine , Tralleis (now Aydın ) and the island of Rhodes were briefly under the rule of the Mentesche.
In the second half of the 14th century, pressure from the Ottomans rose from the north. In 1390 they annexed the Mentesche Beylik for the first time. After the defeat of the Ottomans in the Battle of Ankara against Timur in 1402 , the Beyliks like the Mentesche and the Karaman , who had been conquered by the Ottomans, became independent again. But in 1421 the Beylik finally came under Ottoman rule.
literature
- Paul Wittek : The Principality of Mentesche. Study on the history of western Asia Minor in the 13th – 15th centuries Century , German Archaeological Institute Istanbul, Istanbul 1934.
- Elizabeth A. Zachariadou : Menteše Oġularï . Lexicon of the Middle Ages, Volume 6, 530-531. ISBN 3-423-59057-2 (2003 study edition)
- Erdoğan Merçil: Menteshe-Oghulları . Encyclopedia of Islam 6 (1991), 1081-1019. ISBN 90-04-08112-7
- Ali Sevim: Türk Tarihi - Fetih, Selçuklu ve Beylikler Dönemi , Türk Tarih Kurumu 1989; P. 279ff.
- Clifford Edmund Bosworth: The New Islamic Dynasties , Edinburgh University Press 1996, p. 222