Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Beylik of Teke
drawn on the map 1326–1428
The Beylik of Teke (Tekeoğulları), a branch of the Hamidids, was centred on Antalya and later Korkuteli. It was founded in 1321 when the Hamidid Dündar Bey captured Antalya and gave it to his brother Yunus Bey, splitting the Hamidid realm.
- Shown on the map
- 1326–1428
- Peak area
- 31k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
The Beylik of Teke (Tekeoğulları), a branch of the Hamidids, was centred on Antalya and later Korkuteli. It was founded in 1321 when the Hamidid Dündar Bey captured Antalya and gave it to his brother Yunus Bey, splitting the Hamidid realm. The dynasty controlled the important Mediterranean port of Antalya and its hinterland. Rulers included Yunus, Mahmud, Hızır (Khidr), Dadı Bey, Mubariz al-Din Muhammad, and the last ruler Osman Çelebi. The Ottomans first annexed Teke under Bayezid I in 1391; after Timur's 1402 invasion Osman Çelebi was restored, and the Ottomans definitively re-annexed the beylik in 1423. Antalya's harbour made Teke a valuable maritime and commercial prize.
Common questions
- What was the Beylik of Teke?
- The Beylik of Teke (Tekeoğulları), a branch of the Hamidids, was centred on Antalya and later Korkuteli. It was founded in 1321 when the Hamidid Dündar Bey captured Antalya and gave it to his brother Yunus Bey, splitting the Hamidid realm.
- When is the Beylik of Teke shown on the map?
- The border data draws the Beylik of Teke 1326–1428. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the Beylik of Teke?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Beylik of Teke covered about 31,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each beylik, khanate and principality as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and academic sources (the Baku Presidential Library on the Shirvanshahs, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Armenian Genocide) and the historiography of early Ottoman state formation (Wittek, Lindner, Kafadar, Lowry). The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Beylik of Teke en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beylik_of_Teke
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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