Sarukhan, Bey of Magnesia

Sarukhan (1300/01–1345/46) was a Turkish Bey of Magnesia (present-day Manisa, Turkey).^[1]

Sarukhan was a Turkish Bey who is remembered for his conquests in the western Anatolian Peninsula. In 1313, he occupied Thyatira (present-day Akhisar, Manisa Province), and then left his name "Saruhan" to the region he had occupied, becoming an independent ruler and transmitting the region to his descendants.^[2]

At one point in 1336, Sarukhan formed an alliance with the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos, and supported him militarily in two sieges against the Genoese, in Mytilene and Phocaea.^[3] In 1341 however he attacked Constantinople with a fleet, but was repulsed around the Gallipoli peninsula by a Byzantine fleet in 1341.^[3]

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^ Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual (Edinburgh: University Press, 2004), p.220
^ A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730, edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16
^ ^a ^b Samuel Jacob, History of the Ottoman Empire, (London, 1854), p.308

[1] Clifford Edmund Bosworth, The new Islamic dynasties: a chronological and genealogical manual (Edinburgh: University Press, 2004), p.220

[2] A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730, edited by M.A. Cook (Cambridge: University Press, 1976), p.16

[Jacob-3] Samuel Jacob, History of the Ottoman Empire, (London, 1854), p.308

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v t Anatolian Beys
First period (11th–12th centuries)	Danishmend Gazi Gazi Gümüshtigin Emir Gazi Melik Mehmed Gazi Yağıbasan Melik Zünnun Saltuk II Melike Mama Hatun (khatun) Sökmen el-Kutbî Sökmen ibn Artuq Ilghazi Belek Ghazi Husam al-Din Timurtash Rukn al-Dawla Da'ud Togan Arslan Tzachas
Second period (13th–15th centuries)	Husam al-Din Choban Yaman Candar Celaleddin Bayezid İsfendiyar Bey Gazi Chelebi Nure Sofi Karaman Bey Mehmet I of Karaman Güneri of Karaman Mahmut of Karaman Musa of Karaman Ibrahim I of Karaman Halil of Karaman Ahmet of Karaman Alaattin Ali of Karaman Şemseddin of Karaman Süleyman of Karaman Mehmet II of Karaman Muzaffer al-Din Yavlak Arslan Mahmud Bey Bengi Ali of Karaman Ibrahim II of Karaman Ishak of Karaman Pir Ahmet of Karaman Kasım of Karaman Süleyman of Germiyan Yakup II of Germiyan Dündar of Hamid Umur of Aydın Junayd of Aydın Saruhan Bey İlyas Bey of Saruhan Mesut of Menteshe Bozkurt of Dulkadir Shah Budak Kadi Burhan al-Din Alp Yürek
Seljuks of Anatolia, Ottoman Empire, Akkoyunlu and Karakoyunlu excluded

Sarukhan, Bey of Magnesia

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