1464 – 1469
Karaman, 1464–1469
İbrahim II of Karaman dies in 1464, and his sons fight over his lands. İshak, his heir, governs at Silifke, while his younger son Pir Ahmed, whose mother is a daughter of Mehmed I, declares himself bey at Konya. İshak takes the throne with the help of Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu, and Pir Ahmed asks Mehmed for help and offers him part of the beylik in return.
Konya with the Alaeddin Mosque on its citadel hillWikimedia Commons, Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Konya view from Seljuk Tower 3998.jpg)
In 1465 Pir Ahmed defeats İshak with Ottoman troops at Dağpazarı, becomes bey and hands over the promised land, but he takes it back while Mehmed is away in Albania. In April 1468, by Faruk Sümer’s dating, Mehmed’s army takes the castle of Gevele and then Konya, and Mehmed goes on to the town of Karaman (then Larende), while Pir Ahmed escapes to the east. Many families of Konya and Larende are moved to Constantinople, and in 1468 Mahmud Pasha loses the office of grand vizier, officially over the way that this resettlement is handled.
The citadel of Karaman (Larende)Wikimedia Commons, Klaus-Peter Simon, CC BY-SA 3.0 (KaramanKale1.jpg)
Mehmed leaves his son Mustafa as governor at Konya. In 1469 Gedik Ahmed Pasha takes Aksaray and Ereğli, and Pir Ahmed keeps only the castles of the Taurus, such as Ermenek, and the coast below them.
Sources
- Aşıkpaşazade, Tevârîh-i Âl-i Osmân (late 15th century).
- Mehmed Neşri, Kitâb-ı Cihan-nümâ (late 15th century).
- İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, Anadolu Beylikleri ve Akkoyunlu, Karakoyunlu Devletleri (1937).
- Franz Babinger, Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time (1978).
- Colin Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1481 (1990).
- Faruk Sümer, “Karamanoğulları”, in TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 24 (2001).
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