Beylik of Dulkadir explained

Conventional Long Name:Dulkadirids
Era:Late Medieval
Government Type:Beylik
Year Start:1337
Year End:1522
P1:Ilkhanate
Flag P1:Flag of Ilkhanate.svg
P2:Mamluk Sultanate
Flag P2:Mameluke Flag.svg
S1:Ottoman Empire
Flag S1:Fictitious Ottoman flag 2.svg
Image Map Caption:An anachronistic map of the Anatolian beyliks in around 1330
Religion:Islam (Sunni and Shia), Christianity
Leader1:Zayn al-Din Qaraja
Leader2:Ali
Year Leader1:1337
Year Leader2:1522
Title Leader:Beg
Stat Area1:70,000

The Beylik of Dulkadir (Turkish: Dulkadiroğulları Beyliği) was one of the Anatolian beyliks established by the Turkoman clans Bayat, Afshar, and Begdili after the decline of Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm.

Etymology

The meaning of Dulkadir is unclear. It was later Arabized or reinterpreted according to folk tradition as, which means 'powerful' or 'mighty'. According to the 16th-century German historian Johannes Leunclavius, Dulkadir was a corruption of the Turkic name Ṭorg̲h̲ud. Franz Babinger considered it as very probable, as the name was likely derived from some Turkish name, further suggesting that this would also mean the dynasty of Dulkadir is related to the Turkoman tribe of Ṭorg̲h̲ud. On the other hand, Annemarie von Gabain proposed tulga-dar as the original Turkic word it sprang from. According to Turkologist Louis Bazin, the name may be rooted in the term "dolga," which means "to hurt" or "to agonize". Historian Faruk Sümer suggested that Dulkadir could be the Turkmen pronunciation of the Muslim given name Abdul Qadir parallel to how the Ilkhanate ruler Abu Sa'id was known as "Busad" by his Turkmen subjects. Another historian Refet Yinanç supported Sümer's view.

Medieval Armenian authors referred to the Dulkadirids as,,,, or . While Persian sources spelled Dulkadir as Zulkadir, Arabic sources spelled it as Dulgadir or Tulgadir. Ottoman sources used a combination of Zulkadir and Dulkadir.

History

The principality was founded by Zayn al-Din Qaraja, a Turkoman chieftain, likely from the Bayat tribe, who established himself in the region of Elbistan in 1335, taking the town in 1337 and obtaining the title of na'ib from the Mamluk Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad. In 1515, after the Battle of Turnadağ, the principality was conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I's vizier Hadım Sinan Pasha and converted into a sanjak.

List of rulers

!No.!Rulers!Regin Start!Regin End
1.Zayn al-Din Qaraja13371353
2.Ghars al-Din Khalil13531386
3.Shaban Suli13861398
4.Sadaqa Beg13981399
5.Nasir al-Din Mehmed Beg13991442
6.Suleiman Beg14421454
7.Sayf al-Din Malik Arslan14541465
8.Shah Budak1st.14652nd.14721st.14662nd.1480
9.Shah Suwar Al-Muzaffar14661472
10.Ala al-Dawla Bozkurt14801515
11.Ali Beg15151522

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