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The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (
Modern Turkish: Aydınoğulları, Aydınoğulları Beyliği,
Ottoman Turkish: آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی), also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin (Aydın Beyliği), was one of the
Anatolian beyliks and famous for its seaborne raiding.
Name
It is named after its founder Aydın Mehmed Bey.
Capital
Its capital was at first in
Birgi, and later in Ayasoluk (present day
Selçuk), was one of the frontier principalities established in the 14th century by
Oghuz Turks after the decline of
Sultanate of Rûm.
History
The Aydinids also held parts of the port of Smyrna (modern
İzmir) all through their rule and all of the port city with intervals. Especially during the reign of
Umur Bey, the sons of Aydın were a significant naval power of the time.[1] The naval power of Aydin played a crucial role in the
Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347, where Umur allied with
John VI Kantakouzenos, but also provoked a Latin response in the form of the
Smyrniote crusades, that captured Smyrna from the beylik.
The Beylik was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire for the first time in 1390, and after the passage of
Tamerlane in Anatolia in 1402 and the ensuing period of troubles that lasted until 1425, its territories became again part of the Ottoman realm, this time definitively.
Architecture
The
Beys of Aydin left important architectural works, principally in
Birgi and Ayasoluk (
Selçuk), their capital cities.
Legacy
The city of
Aydın (ancient Tralles) was named after the dynasty.
Lemerle, Paul (1957). L'émirat d'Aydin, Byzance et l'Occident: Recherches sur la "Geste d'Umur Pacha". Bibliothèque byzantine: Etudes No. 2 (in French). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı (1984). Anadolu Beylikleri ve Akkoyunlu, Karakoyunlu Devletleri (in Turkish). Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi. pp. 104–120.
OCLC563553149.