"Mehmet II and the Fall of the Karamanids" Topic

"The Karamanids (Turkish: Karamanoğulları) are also known as the Emirate of Karaman and Beylik of Karaman. Their origin story is contested, but they were probably members of the Salur tribe of Oghuz Turks, or the Afshar tribe. They moved to the western Taurus Mountains, near the town of Larende (modern-day Karaman), under Seljuk rule in the 13th century. Karaman Bey (1221-1263) expanded his territories, capturing a series of castles in 1225 (possibly later). You can see the reconstructed Karaman castle today.

​The Karamanids rebelled against the Seljuks in 1261, but despite several defeats, they managed to assert their independence, with the help of the Mamluks. A further expansion of Karamanid power occurred after the fall of the Ilkhanids in the 1330s. The first contact with the Ottomans happened through the marriage of Karamanoğlu Alâeddin Ali Bey to Nefise Hatun, the daughter of the Ottoman Sultan Murat I.

After Timur's defeat of the Ottomans at the Battle of Ankara in 1402, the Karamanids benefited from the subsequent Ottoman civil war. A Karamanid army under Mehmet Bey managed to capture Bursa, although they withdrew when the Ottomans recovered. They again took advantage of the Ottoman focus on the Balkans by capturing Ankara during the Crusade of Varna in 1443-44. On his victorious return, Ottoman Sultan Murad II (Mehmed's father) forced the submission of the Karamanids…"

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