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Group: Saruhan, Beylik of
People: Eustace II
Topic: Religion, Fourth War of
Location: Ahlât Bitlis Turkey

Saruhan, Beylik of

Years: 1300 - 1410

The Sarukhanids or Sarukhanid dynasty, also known as the Principality of Saruhan and Beylik of Saruhan, is one of the Anatolian beyliks, centered in Manisa.It is one of the frontier principalities established by Oghuz Turkish clans after the decline of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate.

Founded by the tribal chief Saruhan about 1300, it lasts for a first time until 1390, when Bayezid I overruns the region and finally until 1410, when the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed I kills Hızır, the last Saruhan ruler, and absorbs the Beylik into the Ottoman Empire as a province.