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Group: Pentapolis, Duchy of the
People: Helian Duo
Topic: Western Art: 1324 to 1336
Location: Squillace Calabria Italy

Cem had received a letter from his …

Years: 1482 - 1482

Cem had received a letter from his brother while he was in Cairo, offering him one million akçes (the Ottoman currency) to stop competing for the throne.

Cem had rejected the offer, and in the following year he launches a campaign in Anatolia with the help of the Mamluks and the last Turkmen ruler of Karaman, but his effort to secure the support of the Turkmen nomads fails because of their attraction to Bayezid's heterodox religious policies.

He besieges Konya on May 27, 1482,  but is soon forced to withdraw to …