1424 – January 1429
Germiyan and Karaman, 1424–1429
Mehmed II of Karaman was killed early in 1423 while besieging the Ottoman port of Antalya, and his son Ibrahim fights his uncle Ali for the throne. Ibrahim wins it with Ottoman help in 1424 and gives the Hamid lands around Isparta back to Murad. In 1425 he marries Murad’s sister İlaldı Hatun, a daughter of Mehmed I, and in 1427 his brothers İsa and Alaeddin Ali marry two more daughters of Mehmed I. In 1428, while Murad is at Golubac, Ibrahim takes the Hamid lands again.
The Yivli Minaret of Antalya, rebuilt in 1373Wikimedia Commons, Saffron Blaze, CC BY 3.0 (Yivli Minaret Mosque Antalya.jpg)
Yakub II of Germiyan, who had backed Küçük Mustafa, makes his peace with Murad. Yakub has no sons and leaves his land to Murad by will. In 1428, an old man, he travels from Kütahya to Bursa and visits the graves of Osman and Orhan, and Murad receives him at Edirne with a lavish ceremony, where Yakub declares his will. Yakub dies in January 1429 and is buried in the complex that he had built at Kütahya, and Murad annexes Germiyan.
The tiled grave of Yakub II of Germiyan at KütahyaWikimedia Commons, Ömerserez, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Yakub bey mezar.JPG)
Plague breaks out in the Ottoman lands in 1428 and 1429. It kills the sheikh Emir Sultan at Bursa, the vizier and builder Hacı İvaz Pasha, the grand vizier Çandarlı İbrahim Pasha and Murad’s younger brothers Mahmud and Yusuf, whom Murad had blinded. With Germiyan, the Ottoman lands in Anatolia reach from the Aegean to Kütahya, Ankara and Amasya and south to Antalya. Karaman holds the centre and the south coast east of Antalya, and Candar the north coast from Kastamonu to Sinop.
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).
- Mustafa Çetin Varlık, Germiyan-oğulları Tarihi (1300–1429) (1974).
- Colin Imber, The Ottoman Empire, 1300–1481 (1990).
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