Realm · approximate borders · 1293–1471

Beylik of Alaiye

Alanya (Alaiye) and its hinterland, semi-autonomous after the Seljuk defeat at Köse Dağ (1243) and a beylik from c. 1293, at times under the Karamanids or Lusignan Cyprus; briefly passed to the Mamluks in the 1420s and was taken by the Ottomans in 1471.

Sources: Wikipedia 'Alaiye'.

See Beylik of Alaiye on the map in 1293

On the map: 1293–1471
Capital: Alanya (Alaiye)

Rulers named in the sources

Mecdeddin Mahmud c. 1293
Yusuf Bey 1330s
Lütfi Bey 15th century
Kılıç Arslan c. 1471

States of the Middle East, 2400 BCE–1886

Among the smaller states of Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Iran and the South Caucasus were Bronze and Iron Age kingdoms (Ebla, Mari, Yamhad, Kizzuwatna, Arzawa, Ugarit, Aram-Damascus, Ammon, Moab, Edom, Mannaea), the city-kingdoms of Cyprus, Characene, Elymais, Hatra, Kinda and Muhammad's state at Medina; the Caucasian kingdoms and emirates of the 9th–12th centuries (Tbilisi, Lori, Kakheti-Hereti, Syunik, Kars) and the dynasties of the 'Iranian intermezzo' (Sallarids, Rawwadids, Hasanwayhids, Kakuyids, Marwanids, Uqaylids, Mirdasids, Mazyadids, Ikhshidids); the Burids of Damascus, the Nizari Ismaili castles, the atabegs of Azerbaijan, Fars, Luristan and Kerman; the eastern Anatolian beyliks (Saltukids, Mengujekids, Shah-Armens, Artuqids, Eretnids, Kadi Burhan al-Din, Erzincan, Tacettin, Lâdik, Alaiye); the Mamluk pashas of Baghdad; Arabian states from the Sulayhids to the Jabrids, Bani Khalid, Kathiri, Mahra and Lahej; and the South Caucasus khanates of 1747–1828. Few pre-modern sources describe frontiers.