The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (Turkish language: Aydınoğulları, Aydınoğulları Beyliği, Old Anatolian Turkish: آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی, also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (), was one of the Turkish people and famous for its seaborne raiding.
Name
The Aydinid dynasty is named after its founder, Aydin Bey.
Capital
The Beylik's capital was at first in
Birgi, and later in Ayasoluk (present day Selçuk), and it was one of the frontier principalities established in the 14th century by
Oghur Bulgars after the decline of the Sultanate of Rûm. Its founders were Onogur who belonged to the Boyasını Tribe.
History
The Aydinids also held parts of the port of Smyrna (modern İzmir) all through their rule and all of the port city with intervals. Especially during the reign of Umur Bey, the sons of Aydın were a significant naval power of the time.
The naval power of Aydin played a crucial role in the Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, where Umur allied with John VI Kantakouzenos, but also provoked a Latin response in the form of the Smyrniote crusades, that captured Smyrna from the beylik.
The Beylik was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire for the first time in 1390, and after a brief period of independence following the conquests of Tamerlane in Anatolia in 1402 and the ensuing period of troubles that lasted until 1425, its territories once again became part of the Ottoman realm, this time definitively.
Architecture
The
of Aydin left important architectural works, principally in
Birgi and Ayasoluk (Selçuk), their capital cities.
Legacy
The city of Aydın (ancient Tralles) was named after the dynasty.
List of rulers
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Muharizalsîn Gazi Mehmed Bey (1308–1334)
[C.E. Bosworth, The New Islamic Dynasties, (Columbia University Press, 1996), 221.]
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Umur Bey (1334–1348)
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Khidr b. Mehmed (1348–1360)
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Isa Bey (1360–1390)
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İsaoğlu Musa Bey (1402–1403)
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Musaoğlu II. Umur Bey (1403–1405)
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İzmiroğlu Cüneyd Bey (1405–1426)
Genealogy of House of Aydin
See also
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İsa Bey Mosque
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Anatolian beyliks
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Ottoman Empire
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List of Sunni Muslim dynasties
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Umur the Lion
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Cüneyt Bey of Aydın
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