Turkish Bey of Magnesia
"Saruhan" redirects here. For the region in Turkey formerly an Ottoman sanjak, see
Manisa Province .
Silver gigliato of Sarukhan Beg bin Alpagi, 1313-1348, ruler of Lydia , western Turkey. This is an imitation of a coin of Robert I of Anjou , king of Naples (1309-1343).
Sarukhan (1300/01–1345/46) was a Turkish Bey of Magnesia (present-day Manisa , Turkey ).[ 1]
Sarukhan was a Turkish Bey who is remembered for his conquests in the western Anatolian Peninsula. In 1313, he occupied Thyatira (present-day Akhisar , Manisa Province ), and then left his name "Saruhan" to the region he had occupied, becoming an independent ruler and transmitting the region to his descendants.[ 2]
At one point in 1336, Sarukhan formed an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos , and supported him militarily in two sieges against the Genoese , in Mytilene and Phocaea .[ 3] In 1341 however he attacked Constantinople with a fleet, but was repulsed around the Gallipoli peninsula by a Byzantine fleet in 1341.[ 3]
Notes
^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual (Edinburgh: University Press, 2004), p.220
^ A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 , edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16
^ a b Samuel Jacob, History of the Ottoman Empire , (London, 1854), p.308
First period (11th–12th centuries) Second period (13th–15th centuries)